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050	0	0	_aHD9198.I43 _bA8437 2024
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100	1		_aBarua, Maan, _d1982- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPlantation worlds / _cMaan Barua.
263			_a2408
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2024.
300			_axii, 297 pages _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
365			_bRs. 2577.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPostcolonial fauna -- Plantationocene -- The slow violence of infrastructure -- Material politics -- Accumulation by plantation -- The diagram of connectivity -- Decolonial cartographies -- A reverse déjà vu.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aTea plantations _zIndia _zAssam _xHistory.
650		0	_aTea plantations _xEnvironmental aspects _zIndia _zAssam.
650		0	_aTea plantation workers _zIndia _zAssam _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aElephants _xEffect of human beings on _zIndia _zAssam.
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships _zIndia _zAssam.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / South / India _2bisacsh
650		7	_aNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection _2bisacsh
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