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Plantation Worlds

By Maan Barua

Plantation Worlds

By Maan Barua

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In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nearly three million people were brought in to Assam's plantations to work under conditions of indenture. Plantations dramatically altered the region's landscape, plundered resources, and created fraught worlds for elephants and people. Their extractive logics and colonial legacies prevail as durations, forging the ambit of infrastructures, labor, habitability, and conservation in the present. And yet, as the perspectives of the Adivasi plantation worker community and lifeworlds of elephants show, possibilities for enacting a decolonial imaginary of landscape remain present amid immiseration. From the margins of the Global South, Barua offers an alternative grammar for articulating environmental change. In so doing, he prompts a rethinking of multispecies ecologies and how they are structured by colonialism and race.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
310
Release Date:
2024-08-30
Publication Date:
2024-08-30
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478025611
ISBN13:
9781478025610
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
506 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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