New special issue edited by Matthias Heymann (with Elena Kochetkova and Ines Prodöhl)
Global Fat Resources: Connecting Themes, Approaches and Narratives, c. 1850–2020s. Global Environment, vol. 19, iss. 1 (February 2026)
Content
- Introduction. Global fat resources: Connecting themes, approaches and narratives, c.1850–2020s, by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann, and Ines Prodöhl
- Fat: Lubricant of modernity, by Ines Prodöhl
- Autarkic, but global: Fat supply and whaling in pre-war Nazi Germany, by Ole Sparenberg
- Whaling as an interim oil supply industry: The rise and fall of whale oil in the competitive fat and oil markets, by Jun Akamine
- Roots and dynamics of Dutch foreign plant-oil demands 1920–2020, by Frank Veraart, Maliene Kip, Janine Glas, and Dulce van Vliet
- From communal agropastoral practices to the slaughterhouses in the Brazilian border line with Argentina: the significance of lard in settlers’ narratives (1930s–1960s), by Claiton Marcio da Silva, Elisandra Forneck, and Aline Maisa Lubenow
- Cod and its oil, cuisine and its supplements: Fish fragmentation, commodity connections and naturalising resources in Newfoundland, by L. Sasha Gora
- Fish oil’s journey through Russian and Soviet history, by Julia Lajus and Dmitry Lajus
- Food chemistry, fat experiment and palm oil in late Soviet politics and industry, by Elena Kochetkova
- Open Access Global entanglements of palm oil and kernel extraction from French West Africa (c. 1840–1960), by Giovanni Tonolo
- Advocating for inclusive narratives: A call for critical engagement with the palm oil agribusiness sector, by Shakila Yacob and Caitlyn Sears
- Meanings of sustainability: The invention of sustainable palm oil, by Matthias Heymann