CBC interview on Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and other interviews and reviews
Last month, my book Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire was published by Pluto Books. Since then a number of interviews and reviews have come … Read more
Palm Oil
The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition (Mediapart/Berliner Gazette)
This text, published in English on Mediapart, is a contribution to the Berliner Gazette’s “After Extractivism” text series; its German version is available on Berliner … Read more
Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)
A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (excerpt)
mystified human sacrifice, hidden in plain sight. The stories I tell in Palm Oil trace this system’s contours and seek answers in its past.