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Mariko
Frame

Mariko

Frame

Academic Title

Associate Professor, Economics

Contact Information

Research Interests
  • International Political Economy
  • Political Economy of the Environment Development
Research Summary

My main research interest is on the political economy of the environment and development, through interdisciplinary perspectives such as environmental studies and biocultural diversity as well as critical perspectives like world-systems theory and the study of capitalism, imperialism, and environmental justice.

Education
  • Ph.D. International Studies, University of Denver
    Fields: International Political Economy and Political Theory, Dissertation with Distinction
  • Masters of Arts International Studies, University of Denver
    Fields: Political Theory, Concentration: Chinese Politics.
  • Bachelors of Science, Oberlin College                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Double major: Physics and South Asian Studies
Recent Publications
  • Mariko Frame. (Forthcoming) Stefan Ouma’s Farming As Financial Asset in the Broader Context of Imperialism and Ecological Crises, Global South
  • Mariko Frame. (forthcoming) “Too Big To Fail, Too Monstrous to Survive: Capitalism, Extractivism, and the Ecological Challenges for Anti-Capitalist Movements,” Rethinking Marxism
  • Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies From Around the World, co-edited with Sam Grant and Felix Mantz, Bloomsbury Publishers (2025)
  • Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
  • Mariko Frame. Ecological Imperialism, Development and the Capitalist World-System: Cases from Africa and Asia, Routledge (2023)
  • Mariko Frame. (2023). Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 21(5-6), 426-448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-123416
  • Mariko Frame. (2022) “Ecological Imperialism: A World-Systems Approach.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 81, Issue 3.
  • Mariko Frame, William McDowell, Ellen Fitzpatrick (2021). “Ecological Contradictions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Malaysia.” Journal of Environment and Development. Volume 0(0), 1-34
  • Mariko Frame. 2018. “The Role of the Semiperiphery in Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Case Study of Land Grabbing in Cambodia,” in R. Scott Frey, Paul Gellert, and Harry Dahms’s edited volume (titled Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective), published by Palgrave-Macmillan.

 

 

 

 

Teaching

Courses: International Economics, Sustainable Development, Ecological Economics, History of Capitalism, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics

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