Description: Plantation Worlds, Hardcover by Barua, Maan, ISBN 1478020865, ISBN-13 9781478020868, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Plantation Worlds
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Plantation Worlds
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Human Geography, Economics / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Maan Barua
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, Business & Economics
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Format: Hardcover
