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
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