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Author:   Colette Le Petitcorps ,  Marta Macedo ,  Irene Peano
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9783031085369

ISBN 10:   3031085361
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   03 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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. The multispecies 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

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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.

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