Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene

Paredes, Alyssa

doi:10.1080/00141844.2021.1919172

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“…On another front, the convergence of anthropology and STS developed a multi-species angle addressing today's complex interactions of humans, plants, animals, pests, fungi, chemicals, knowledge, economies and environments all through the planet, from the intensive monocultures of palm, soy, canes, fruits and flowers, to the labs where they are managed, the fields of human abandonment or resistance, the creative restorative cultures, the future scenarios of re-arrangement of species (Battaglia 2017;Bray et al 2019;Chao 2021;Chao, Bolender and Kirksey 2022;Haraway 2015;Hetherington 2020;Macedo 2021;Paredes 2023;Tsing et al 2017;Wolford 2021).…”

Section: Some Analytic Tendencies On Plant-people Dynamicsmentioning

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Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i

Bastos

2024

Journal of Ethnobiology

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In this article, I use the concept of ‘plant-people intimacies’ for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed landscapes of plantation Hawai‘i, where sugar canes, pineapples and other crops replaced the traditional taro gardens and displaced their human gardeners while producing a multi-ethnic population with migrant workers-settlers. I will analyse how evocations of special bonds to some crops among diasporic persons express a vegetal nexus with ancestral geographies and act as a code to negotiate social and historical positionalities.

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Section: Some Analytic Tendencies On Plant-people Dynamicsmentioning

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Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i

Bastos

2024

Journal of Ethnobiology

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“…Numerous critiques of plantation (i.e. Paredes, 2021;Barua, 2023) and factory style farming (i.e. Fitzgerald, 2003;Stanescu, 2013;Blanchette, 2020) have shown that the disappearance of diversity in crops or breeds in favour of optimised yields or growth rates makes agricultural production and multispecies webs of life in general more susceptible to diseases or weather extremes.…”

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Saving sheep – On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming

Schaumann

2024

Camb. prisms Extinction

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The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara, the Namibian Karakul. The current crisis is articulated in extinction narratives. The potential end of Swakara farming as a way of life and a set of knowledge practices is narratively interwoven with the potential disappearance of Swakara from the Namibian landscape. Extinction narratives in the context of Swakara farming in Namibia blur the lines of human and nonhuman ways of life and their disappearance.

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“…Where agronomic and ecological research methods major on the biological interactions between pests, crops, soils, landscapes, livestock animals, and farming inputs, social scientists working in this space foreground the commonalities that cut across disparate empirical analyses, connecting case studies that might otherwise seem separated by a reservoir of context specificity. This allows, by way of example, the leaf rust hampering Mexican coffee plants (Perfecto et al, 2019) and the Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four ravaging Filipino banana farms (Paredes, 2023) to be read as ecological expressions of the same legacy of plantation farming predicated on ecological simplification and capitalist accumulation. Tooled with social science terms of analysis, the promise of agroecological crop protection rightly becomes something with important social, cultural, political, and justice consequences.…”

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Agroecological transitions: reading, writing, and thinking across disciplinary divides

Cusworth

2024

Front. Agron.

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There is great diversity in the methods, terms, and empirical focuses employed by social and natural scientists working on agroecological transitions. The upshot is that whilst various researchers may nominally be putting their shoulder to the same agroecological wheel, the impact of their combined efforts is not what it might be. The aim of this article is to assist in the co-ordination and collaboration of disparate research activities and actors. It does so by offering the readers of this journal a user-friendly guide to some of the terms being used by social scientists (particularly human geographers and anthropologists) in their work on pests, diseases, crop protections and agroecological transitions. Such a document is of particular use as the terms and concepts employed by social scientists are equipped to generate analysis with explicit political insight in a way that those used by natural scientists may not be. The concepts and theories of social scientists foreground the commonalities that cut across case studies which might otherwise seem separated by a reservoir of context specificity. Tooled with these terms of analysis, the promise of agroecology rightly becomes something with far reaching political and justice consequences. These terms are presented across five areas: the ontological, the epistemological, the methodological, the historical, and the aesthetic. Given the range of social, ecological, cultural, and economic barriers involved in effecting an agroecological transition, it is vital that different researchers are conversant in each other’s language.

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Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i

Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i

Saving sheep – On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming

Agroecological transitions: reading, writing, and thinking across disciplinary divides

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