Plantation Futures

McKittrick, Katherine

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“…What makes Clean Greens’ work different is that engagements occur within a space led and negotiated by the African American leaders, creating a politics of alliance that is framed by the black geographies of the CD. The “community” or future that is imagined within these black farming spaces is radically different than the “inclusive” spaces attempted by white activists for these spaces emerge from black geographies: they are “the sites through which particular forces of empire … bring forth a poetics that envisions a decolonial future” (McKittrick :5). Black food geographies offer a transformative politics that have the potential to reimagine the asymmetry of the present.…”

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“…Contextualizing the plantation complex in food justice work provides a deeper understanding of how contemporary violence is entangled in the violent structures, processes and ideologies that stem from the plantation. As the “penultimate site of black dispossession, anti‐black violence, racial encounter, and innovative resistance”, the plantation provides an analytical framework and context that enable us to locate racialized processes in the present, and trace their threads throughout history (McKittrick :8). The American socio‐political system and the very conceptions of freedom and justice that this system is founded upon were born from the plantation political economy—a capitalist structure fueled by anti‐black violence and oppression.…”

Section: Black Geographies and Food Justicementioning

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The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces

2014

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North American food scholars, activists and policymakers often consider how to make a community food project more inclusive to "vulnerable populations" to increase participation in local food efforts. Drawing from qualitative research conducted with two community food organizations in Seattle, Washington, I argue that inclusive efforts are not addressing the power asymmetries present in organizations and within communities. Engaging with black geographies literature, I reveal how a black food justice organization grapples with violent histories of slavery and dispossession rooted in a black farming imaginary, and works to re-envision this imaginary to one of power and transformation. The spatial imaginaries and spaces of each food organization acknowledge racial histories differentially, informing their activism. Black geographies possess knowledge and spatial politics that can revitalize community food movements, and I consider how white food activists might reframe their work so that their efforts are not fueling the displacement of residents of color.

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Section: Black Geographies and Food Justicementioning

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The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces

2014

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“…African Americans enslaved by smallholders and plantation owners alike tended small subsistence gardens or "provision grounds"; both the labor invested in maintaining these plots and the produce grown from them ultimately subsidized slave-based commodity production (Barr, 1996, p. 18;Berlin, 2016;McKittrick, 2013;Rusert, 2009). African Americans enslaved by smallholders and plantation owners alike tended small subsistence gardens or "provision grounds"; both the labor invested in maintaining these plots and the produce grown from them ultimately subsidized slave-based commodity production (Barr, 1996, p. 18;Berlin, 2016;McKittrick, 2013;Rusert, 2009).…”

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

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Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, I propose that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes. As an analytical framework, racial capitalism considers how distinct forms of colonization, settler colonialism, and White supremacy function relationally as part of a unified system of capitalist accumulation built on the exploitation of racialized human and spatial difference. By focusing on UA's contributions to racial Othering, the racialization of space, and dispossession, on the one hand, and on struggles of resistance and self‐determination, on the other, this review attempts to sheds new light on the dialectical, “both/and” nature of UA, while also addressing recent calls to consider how settler colonial logics persist in the contemporary North American city.

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“…In Latin America, understanding land grabbing as a critique of development demands recognition of the spatial and temporal continuities of grabbing as a historical geography of race. As McKittrick (:7) so eloquently notes, “The historical constitution of the lands of no one can, at least in part, be linked to the present and normalized spaces of the racialized other; with this the geographies of the racial other are emptied out of the life precisely because the historical constitution of these geographies has cast them as the lands of no one” (emphasis in the original). It is the power of these racial representations that I encourage future land grab scholarship to interrogate.…”

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The Power to Plunder: Rethinking Land Grabbing in Latin America

Mollett

2015

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In this paper I rethink land grabbing in Latin America by decentering the rhetoric of novelty and the tendency to focus on large‐scale land transactions. To do this, I attend to the longevity of racial thinking bound up in everyday forms of land control. I look at the ways race is salient in the making of land and territorial arrangements. Drawing on my own research in Honduras and Panama, I situate land grabbing in relation to a range of scholarly insights that disclose how the early postcolonial dichotomy of “civilization” and “savagery”, and its inherently whitening logics, re‐appear in contemporary development projects of biodiversity conservation, land administration, and residential tourism. I argue, therefore, that land grabbing is a longstanding process that is routinely operationalized through the state and naturalized through development practices that are underpinned by ongoing racial hierarchies.

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Plantation Futures

Cited by 835 publications

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The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces

The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

The Power to Plunder: Rethinking Land Grabbing in Latin America

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