Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives

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 Kreyòl: 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 Martino Sacchi and Lorenzo Ravano -- 4. Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haiti's Central Plateau Sophie Sapp Moore -- 5. Revolutionary sovereignty as lost normality: Nostalgia for oranges in a former Plantation in Cuba Marie Aureille -- Part II. Continental and Pacific Americas: Multiple subjectivities between control and resistance -- 6. '[A] continual exercise of…Patience and Economy': Plantation overseers, agricultural innovation and state formation in eighteenth-century North America Tristan Stubbs -- 7. Inside the Big House: Slavery, Rationalization of Domestic Labor and the Construction of a New Habitus on Brazilian Coffee Plantations during the Second Slavery Mariana Muaze -- 8. Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters Nicholas 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 perspective David Abrampah -- 10. "Sweet Mother": The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra Leone Nile Davies -- 11. "New Slavery", modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy Irene Peano -- Part IV. South and South-East Asia: Indigenous labour, more-than-human entanglements and the afterlives of multiple crises -- 12. The multispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua Sophie Chao -- 13. Colonial plantations and their afterlives: Legal disciplines, Indian historiographies and their lessons. An interview with Rana Behal Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps -- Afterword -- 14. Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation Deborah A. Thomas.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Global Plantations in the Modern World -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times -- Plantation Ecologies: Environmental Degradation, Segregated Human Relations and Racial Injustice -- The Afterlives of the Plantation: Old and New Insights -- Plantations as Sovereign Machines: Subject Formation, Relations of Patronage and the Intimacies of Power -- References -- Part I Revisiting the Caribbean: Genealogies for the Plantationocene -- 2 From Marrons to Kreyòl: Human-Animal Relations in Early Caribbean -- Introduction -- Inaugural Multispecies Encounters -- Provision Grounds and the Ambiguous Materiality of Freedom -- Counter-Plantation and Its Afterlives -- References -- 3 The Rise and Fall of Caporalisme Agraire in Haiti (1789-1806): Labor Perspectives Through the Plantation Complex -- Introduction -- Policing Emancipation, Preserving Plantation -- Revolutionary Citizenship Through Militarized Agriculture -- Land Concentration -- Limitations to Mobility -- Discipline and Labor Exploitation -- The Fall of Caporalisme Agraire and the Plantation Afterlives -- References -- 4 Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haiti's Central Plateau -- Introduction -- Andeyò -- Occupation Infrastructure -- Tropic of Cotton -- Transformations: The Land of Milk and Honey -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Nostalgia for Oranges: Plantations as a Development Promise in Socialist Cuba -- The Socialist Plantation, a Matrix for a New Society -- The Scope of the Plantation: State Property as Revolutionary Sovereignty -- Tasting "Development" in Citrus Plantations -- Longing for Plantations, Desiring Normality -- Conclusion -- References.