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Vito, Christian G. De; Müller, Viola Franziska

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“…Colonial plantation records are filled with chains and shackles, jails, and whips. Such objects are good reminders of the scale and consequences of planters’ coercive rule, of the intrinsically brutal nature of plantations, and of their repressive regimes (De Vito 2022). They are also evidence of the continued reaction from laborers, always fighting for freedom.…”

Section: Evading From Plantations: Forestsmentioning

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Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé

Macedo

2024

Journal of Ethnobiology

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São Tomé, a small island in the Gulf of Guinea and a former Portuguese colony, is an exemplary place to analyze the development of plantation “cropscapes.” These cropscapes emerged around sugar in the sixteenth century, evolved with coffee in the 1850s and consolidated with cocoa from the 1880s onwards. While is impossible to ignore the monocultural nature of São Tomé plantations and the centrality of specific plants for these plantation ecologies, there were other human/plant assemblages, that sustained, subverted or ran parallel to plantation goals of production, profit and power. This article zooms into cannabis to explore different relations between plantation working peoples and plantation environments, between suffering, healing, and violence, between labor, pleasure, and power. It will examine how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century. It will also discuss how colonial discourses on cannabis obscured and silenced the presence of this plant in contemporary plantation histories, regardless of its traces in the archive. Cannabis histories are in fact important ones: they counter imperial master narratives by showing how, even under conditions of exploitation, laboring communities and plants co-produced spaces of autonomy, care and leisure.

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Section: Evading From Plantations: Forestsmentioning

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Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé

Macedo

2024

Journal of Ethnobiology

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“… 30. On the complex sets of interaction and conflict about the punishment of slaves, between slaveholders, public authorities and slaves’ very resistance, see De Vito and Muller (2022).…”

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Servitude for a time: From the permanent slavery of the unfree to the slavery pro tempore of the free

Melossi

2022

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I consider the forms of control, which went “untreated” by 1970s “revisionist” penality literature (in other words, I wonder whether the categories of human beings who are (mostly) not found in prisons have something in common). I take as starting point that the “temporary slavery” which is the punishment of imprisonment, emerged historically as related to the “free” condition of those punished. Forms of control instead for the “unfree” are not to be included in “(penal) imprisonment” and could be understood as “domestic” forms of control expressed, originally, in the idea of “Pater Familias.” This form of control is not punishment but is a permanent condition deemed appropriate for given categories of human beings, such as “children,” “women,” “slaves,” and what I call “the mad and other non-persons.” I first examine how imprisonment (as punishment) emerged, after the end of servitude in Europe, as a sort of “memory of slavery,” to enforce a principle of subordination dedicated to “the free.” Then, I look at the mechanisms of social control for those who are not socially perceived as “free.” Finally, I attempt at sketching the process of expansion of mechanisms of subordination—for the free and the unfree—beyond European borders.

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Introduction

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Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé

Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé

Servitude for a time: From the permanent slavery of the unfree to the slavery pro tempore of the free

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