Global Plantations in the Modern World

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 different geographies, the collection sheds light on the heterogeneity of plantations and offers insights into the afterlives, spectres and remnants of systems that have been analysed as schemes of production, extraction and authority. Focusing on the expansion of plantation systems throughout various political-economic and ecological projects, and across the modern (and post-modern) period, allows the authors to move beyond analyses that often deal with individual empires through human-centered lenses. The contributors explore resistance to the mechanisms of extraction and control that plantations and their afterlives demanded, shedding light on their excesses, contradictions, failures and deviations. Offering a comprehensive treatment of global plantations, this book provides valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the socio-political and environmental effects of colonialism and imperialism in their various guises. Chapters 1, 8 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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

Auteur

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'e tudes en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, ame ricains 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.

Contenu

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 ofPatience 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.- 1 4 . Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation Deborah A. Thomas