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Plantation worlds /
Barua, Maan, 1982-
Plantation worlds / Maan Barua. - xii, 297 pages 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postcolonial fauna -- Plantationocene -- The slow violence of infrastructure -- Material politics -- Accumulation by plantation -- The diagram of connectivity -- Decolonial cartographies -- A reverse déjà vu.
"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 amidst 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"--
9781478025610
2023040680
Tea plantations--History.--India--Assam
Tea plantations--Environmental aspects--India--Assam.
Tea plantation workers--Social conditions.--India--Assam
Elephants--Effect of human beings on--India--Assam.
Human-animal relationships--India--Assam.
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
HD9198.I43 / A8437 2024
338.1
Plantation worlds / Maan Barua. - xii, 297 pages 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postcolonial fauna -- Plantationocene -- The slow violence of infrastructure -- Material politics -- Accumulation by plantation -- The diagram of connectivity -- Decolonial cartographies -- A reverse déjà vu.
"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 amidst 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"--
9781478025610
2023040680
Tea plantations--History.--India--Assam
Tea plantations--Environmental aspects--India--Assam.
Tea plantation workers--Social conditions.--India--Assam
Elephants--Effect of human beings on--India--Assam.
Human-animal relationships--India--Assam.
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
HD9198.I43 / A8437 2024
338.1
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