Plantationocene: A Framework For Understanding the Links Between Ecological Destruction and Social Inequalities

E Wu, Y Xu - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2024 - Springer
The Anthropocene, as one of the core concepts currently used to understand and reflect on
the relationships among humans, species, and planet, has received widespread attention …

Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene: early colonial monocropping, subaltern agrobiodiversity, and aridity in Andalus (Spain) and Coastal Peru

KS Zimmerer, RM Tubbeh, MG Bell - The Journal of Peasant …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The long-term (AD 1300–1800), multi-scale interactions of monocropping and
subaltern agri-food systems of Andalus (Spain) and coastal Peru reveal the entangled …

Making soil in the Plantationocene

A Ofstehage - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Based on 14 months of ethnographic research, this paper analyzes soil management within
the plantation model of farmingin order to understand the extent to which life on large-scale …

The geographies of veganism: Exploring the complex entanglements of places, plants, peoples and profits through vegan food practices.

A Herman, K O'Neill - Progress in Environmental Geography, 2024 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
The increasing visibility of veganism and plant-based eating makes it timely for
environmental geographers to critically engage with these unfolding debates. In this review …

'A great many of them die': Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland

MDJ Ryan - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The frontier of colonial Queensland was pushed northward through the second half of the
19th century by proliferating sugar plantations. The cultivation of sugar cane for these …

Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany

L Adolphi, L Fleischmann - Environment and Planning E …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Nutria (Myocastor coypus), also known as coypu or 'river rats', are big semi-aquatic rodents
that originate from South America and were shipped to Europe for fur production in the late …

Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia

B Lévy - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Violence is pervasive in plantation narratives and representations, which often portray these
environments in terms of harsh social dynamics. In some cases, they are transformed into …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the Normalization of Plantation Agriculture: The Case of Hass Avocado in Colombia

A Suarez - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plantations are not inherently normal, yet they have been normalized within traditional
agricultural landscapes. This is the premise through which we explore why plantations thrive …

Introduction to Geography and the Plantationocene

W Wolford - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of the Plantationocene has received increasing interest in recent years across a
variety of academic fields. This article introduces a forum in which seven scholars debate the …

Ambiguity, consciousness, and plantation afterlives in Brazil's racial capitalism

I Carrillo - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper studies racial ambiguity and consciousness to advance debates on labor and
discourse in racial capitalism and the plantationocene. I examine how the historical co …