ISBN:
9781478025610
,
9781478020868
,
1478020865
,
1478025611
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 297 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Barua, Maan, 1982- Plantation worlds
DDC:
338.1/73720954162
Keywords:
Teeanbau
;
Agrarberufe
;
Nutztiere
;
Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung
;
Assam
;
Indien
;
Tea plantations History
;
Tea plantations Environmental aspects
;
Tea plantation workers Social conditions
;
Elephants Effect of human beings on
;
Human-animal relationships
;
Tea plantations History
;
Tea plantations Environmental aspects
;
Tea plantation workers Social conditions
;
Elephants Effect of human beings on
;
Human-animal relationships
;
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
;
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
;
Teeanbau
;
Asiatischer Elefant
;
Indischer Elefant
;
Mensch
;
Elefanten
;
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
;
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Conservation of the environment
;
HIS062000
;
Human geography
;
Humangeographie
;
Asian history
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
;
Umweltschutz
;
Indien
;
India
;
Nordostindien
;
Assam
;
Teeplantage
;
Plantagenwirtschaft
;
Landarbeiter
;
Umweltveränderung
;
Asiatischer Elefant
Abstract:
"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."
Abstract:
Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India, showing how the legacies of colonialism impact the relationship between human and nonhuman life in a time of global environmental upheaval
Description / Table of Contents:
Postcolonial fauna -- Plantationocene -- The slow violence of infrastructure -- Material politics -- Accumulation by plantation -- The diagram of connectivity -- Decolonial cartographies -- A reverse déjà vu.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
