Global Plantations in the Modern World Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives
Taking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological forms throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds spanning multiple and broad temporalities. Showcasing an expansive range of case studies across d...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Cristiana Bastos
- 1. Introduction: Viewing plantations at the intersection of political ecologies and multiple space-times Irene Peano, Marta Macedo and Colette Le Petitcorps
- Part I. Revisiting the Caribbean: Genealogies for the Plantationocene
- 2. From Marrons to Kreyòl: Human-Animal Relations in early Caribbean Rodrigo C. Bulamah
- 3. The rise and fall of caporalisme agraire in Haiti (1789-1806): Labour perspectives through the plantation complex Martino Sacchi and Lorenzo Ravano
- 4. Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haiti’s Central Plateau Sophie Sapp Moore
- 5. Revolutionary sovereignty as lost normality: Nostalgia for oranges in a former Plantation in Cuba Marie Aureille
- Part II. Continental and Pacific Americas: Multiple subjectivities between control and resistance
- 6. ‘[A] continual exercise of…Patience and Economy’: Plantation overseers, agricultural innovation and state formation in eighteenth-century North America Tristan Stubbs
- 7. Inside the Big House: Slavery, Rationalization of Domestic Labor and the Construction of a New Habitus on Brazilian Coffee Plantations during the Second Slavery Mariana Muaze
- 8. Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters Nicholas B. Miller
- Part III. West Africa and its diasporas: Excavating forgotten pasts and haunted presents
- 9. The materialities of Danish plantation agriculture at Dodowa, Ghana: An archaeological perspective David Abrampah
- 10. “Sweet Mother”: The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra Leone Nile Davies
- 11. “New Slavery”, modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy Irene Peano
- Part IV. South and South-East Asia: Indigenous labour, more-than-human entanglements and the afterlives of multiple crises
- 12. Themultispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua Sophie Chao
- 13. Colonial plantations and their afterlives: Legal disciplines, Indian historiographies and their lessons. An interview with Rana Behal Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps
- Afterword
- 14. Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation Deborah A. Thomas