Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius

Haines, Julia Jong

doi:10.1007/s10761-021-00629-0

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“…These studies provide an important counterpoint to model-driven approaches to migration (Van Dommelen 2014). Examining landscapes of South Asian indentured labor in nineteenth-century Mauritius, Haines (2021) shows how plantation ecologies and environmental change both necessitated labor migration from South Asia and changed how people who were part of that diaspora interacted with and within those new landscapes. Because some migrants did return to South Asia, those ecological engagements and changes shaped landscapes in a collectively identified homeland.…”

Section: Transnational Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the literature. A brief Google Scholar search of the words “archaeology,” “boundaries,” and “work” between 1995 and the present produces 365,000 results and makes one point clear: Archaeologists have had a lot to say about the topic. By framing this review around the work of boundaries, I signal two trends in the field of archaeology with conceptual and methodological implications. The first trend is the increased centrality of materiality as a theoretical register as new questions relating to object agency, human/nonhuman boundaries, and new models of environmental archaeology have populated the literature. In such climates it is important to focus on boundaries as a kind of assemblage of actants that takes on agencies beyond notions of territory. Associated border, crossing, transnational, and refuge assemblages are discussed. The second trend is the increased attention to boundary work in archaeology. Whether it is in the form of postcolonial/decolonizing archaeologies, new materialities/symmetrical archaeologies, or contemporary archaeologies, there has been increased pushback against attempts to define anthropological archaeology along processual lines. In this article I review one thread of that literature, critical cartographies, and how they have used the archaeological record to develop radical renditions of political space where boundaries are involved. I focus on scholarship surrounding the relatively recent past (ca. 1200 CE to the present). Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Transnational Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…1st Process, "Human Impacts" Bras d'Eau National Park is located within a former estate, spanning some 5,000 acres (20.2 km 2 ), which has undergone numerous phases of ecological transformation due to agricultural intensification, use of local resources by laboring peoples, and as a consequence of both colonial and post-independence land management (Haines, 2019(Haines, , 2021. The site is characterized by basalt outcrops; vesicular basalt also forms part of the fabric of the underlying soil.…”

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Colonization During Colonialism: Developing a Framework to Assess the Rapid Ecological Transformation of Mauritius’s Pristine Ecosystem

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The colonization of Mauritius exemplifies the role played by humans in altering the ecosystems of remote oceanic islands. This paper focuses on how we study those islands first colonized under the global mantle of colonialism. Here we aim to provide a theoretical framework for historical ecological investigations to disentangle the processes, impacts, and outcomes of colonization during colonialism, considering local, regional, and global drivers. The paper provides a review of existing literature, outlines a proposed research program encompassing paleoecology, paleoclimatology, archeology, and history, and offers details of potential research sites. We present “historical ecology” as a framework to aid future work, and argue that a refined understanding of the impact of human colonization can help create a nuanced chronology of environmental degradation that typifies Mauritius. Such detailed assessment is necessary to inform contemporary ecological conservation efforts. Finally, we argue that narratives of changing ecosystems and practice can help construct “usable pasts,” often missing from historical records, for the multicultural populace of the island.

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The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

Alders

2023

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Colonization During Colonialism: Developing a Framework to Assess the Rapid Ecological Transformation of Mauritius’s Pristine Ecosystem

The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

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