Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives [Paperback]

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 Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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 Krey?l: 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 Martinol3