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

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
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
	Introduction
	The Development of a Stereotype
	A Changing Agricultural Context
	Criticisms of Overseers and Overseer Responses
	Overseer Violence and State Formation
	Conclusion
	References
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
	The Rationalization of Work, Spatial Division, and Occupations of Enslaved People on Coffee Plantations
	Domestic Slavery, Labor Specialization, and Slavocratic Habitus
	References
8 Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i:  The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters
	Introduction
	State Formation Processes and Chinese Migration Before 1874
	Non-Western Planters and the Sugar Boom After 1874
	Co-operative Production and the Case of Kohala, Island of Hawai‘i
	The Kohala Rebellion of 1891
	Conclusion
	References
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
	Introduction
	Danish Plantation System in Ghana
	The Study Area
	Frederikssted Plantation
	Material Artefacts
	Drinking and Eating at the Plantation
		Barrel Hoops
		Royal Copenhagen Porcelain
		Stoneware
		Windmill Decorations
		Willow Pattern
		Semi-Porcelain
		Corned Beef and Sardine Keys
		Mineral Water Bottles and Tumbler
		Food-Related Bottles (Sauce and Pickle Bottles)
		Square Bottles (Gin/Schnapps Bottles)
		Cylindrical Bottles (Wine/champagne)
	Building Implements
		Screws with Washers
		Strap Hinges
		The Brick Hammer
		Axe (Splitting Maul)
		Padlock and Keys
	Farming Tools
		Machete Blade
	Ornamentation
		Whieldonware
		Pierced-Edge Porcelain
		Perfume Bottles
		Bedknobs
	Entertainment
		Ceramic Dolls
		Harmonica
	Rural Telephony
		Telegraph Wire Insulators
	Domestic/Industrial Chemicals (Poison Bottles)
	Cottage Industry (Beads and Sewing)
		Local Beads
		European/Imported Beads
		Sewing Machine Part
	Smoking at the Plantation Site
		European/Imported Smoking Pipes
		Local Smoking Pipes
	Household Tools/Items
		Cutlery
		Local Pottery Materials
	Faunal Remains
	Currency (Cowrie Shells)
	Accounting/Bookkeeping/Writing
	Conclusion
	References
10 “Sweet Mother”: The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra Leone
	Introduction
	“Bold Experiments”
	Sweet Times at Magbass
	The Promise of Productive Life
	Conclusion
	References
11 “New Slavery”, Modern Marronage and the Multiple Afterlives of Plantations in Contemporary Italy
	Speaking of Slavery Today
	Before, Against and Beyond Echoes of the Middle Passage
		Coda: The Black Mediterranean, Modern Marronage and Their Shadows
	References
Part IV South and South-East Asia: Indigenous Labor, 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
	Destruction
	Parasitism
	Mutualism
	Conclusions
	Coda
	References
13 Colonial Plantations and Their Afterlives: Legal Disciplines, Indian Historiographies and Their Lessons. An Interview with Rana Behal
Part V Afterword
14 Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation
	Modernities
	Mobilities
	Mutualities
	Waves
	References
Index