Overview
- Proposes an unexplored nexus between plantations and sovereignty
- Presents case studies from the Caribbean, South America, North America, Africa, Asia and Europe
- Addresses pressing global issues such as environmental degradation, food production and social inequality
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Revisiting the Caribbean: Genealogies for the Plantationocene
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Continental and Pacific Americas: Multiple Subjectivities Between Control and Resistance
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West Africa and Its Diasporas: Excavating Forgotten Pasts and Haunted Presents
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South and South-East Asia: Indigenous Labor, More-Than-Human Entanglements and the Afterlives of Multiple Crises
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Chapters 1, 8 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
—Trevor G. Burnard, Professor and Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, UK
A rare and relevant rethinking of plantations and their afterlives, this book powerfully intervenes in some of the most important debates of our time. The authors and editors brilliantly weave together ethnographic, archival and archaeological case studies that layer into productive critiques of colonialisms, racisms, environmental destructions, and im/mobilities. Through prisms of plantations and counterplantations and theunexpected human and more-than-human actors buttressing and resisting them, the book provides unanticipated insights into the Anthropocene, slavery, racial capitalism, industrial agriculture, migrant labour and – most importantly – possibilities for alternative futures.
Seth M. Holmes, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
The common elements of plantations are the linear arrangement of monocrops and the deployment of labour on a massive scale. The other elements – racial, political, embodied, affective – are specific to their historical and geographic milieu. By placing diverse plantation worlds in conversation, the authors expose the worlds that made plantations, and the worlds plantations made and continue to make through their multivalent entanglements. The results are revelatory.
Tania Murray Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Irene Peano is an Assistant Researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She researches the processes of migrant farm-labour and agribusiness organisation in contemporary Italy and their genealogies.
Marta Macedo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her work focuses on São Tomé plantations, mixing approaches from the history of science and technology, environmental history and labour studies.
Colette Le Petitcorps holds a PhD in Sociology at the University of Poitiers (France). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher associated with the Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques (Center for social studies on African, American and Asian worlds) in Paris. She works on gender, labour relations and the economy of the poor in the post-plantation, with the case of contemporary Mauritius.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Plantations in the Modern World
Book Subtitle: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives
Editors: Colette Le Petitcorps, Marta Macedo, Irene Peano
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08537-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08536-9Published: 03 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08539-0Published: 03 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08537-6Published: 02 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 370
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Labor History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, general, Social History, Economic History