Global Plantations in the Modern World

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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¿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.

Foreword:Cristiana Bastos.-1. Introduction: Viewing plantations at the intersection of political ecologies and multiple space-timesIrene 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 CaribbeanRodrigo C. Bulamah.-3. The rise and fall ofcaporalisme agraire in Haiti (1789-1806): Labour perspectives through the plantation complexMartino Sacchi and Lorenzo Ravano.-4. Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haitis Central PlateauSophie Sapp Moore.-5. Revolutionary sovereignty as lost normality: Nostalgia for oranges in a former Plantation in CubaMarie 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 AmericaTristan Stubbs.-7. Inside the Big House: Slavery, Rationalization of Domestic Labor and the Construction of a New Habituson Brazilian Coffee Plantations during the Second SlaveryMariana Muaze.-8. Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawaii: The Case of Chinese Sugar PlantersNicholas 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 perspectiveDavid Abrampah.-10. Sweet Mother: The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra LeoneNile Davies.-11. New Slavery, modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary ItalyIrene Peano.-Part IV. South and South-East Asia: Indigenous labour, more-than-humanentanglements and the afterlives of multiple crises.- 12. Themultispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West PapuaSophie Chao.-13. Colonial plantations and their afterlives: Legal disciplines, Indian historiographies and their lessons. An interview with Rana BehalMarta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps.-Afterword.-14. Afterlives: The Recursive PlantationDeborah A. Thomas