Palm oil diaspora Afro-Brazilian landscapes and economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast Case Watkins

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Case, 1976- author.

Series:

Afro-Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palm oil industry--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Palm oil industry.

Palm oil industry--Economic aspects--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Palm oil industry--Environmental aspects--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Economic conditions.

Black people.

Human ecology--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Human ecology.

Bahia (Brazil : State)--Economic conditions.

Bahia (Brazil : State).

Black people--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Brazil--Bahia (State).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2021

Summary:

"Behind the social and environmental destruction of modern palm oil production lies a long and complex history of landscapes, cultures, and economies linking Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic World. Case Watkins traces palm oil from its prehistoric emergence in western Africa to biodiverse groves and cultures in Northeast Brazil, and finally the plantation monocultures plundering contemporary rainforest communities. Drawing on ethnography, landscape interpretation, archives, travelers' accounts, and geospatial analysis, Watkins examines human-environmental relations too often overlooked in histories and geographies of the African diaspora, and uncovers a range of formative contributions of people and ecologies of African descent to the societies and environments of the (post)colonial Americas. Bridging literatures on Black geographies, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, political ecology, and decolonial theory and praxis, this study connects diverse concepts and disciplines to analyze and appreciate the power, complexity, and potentials of Bahia's Afro-Brazilian palm oil economy"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy

African and Atlantic worlds

Creolization

An Afro-Brazilian landscape

South Atlantic exchange

Landscapes, religions, transitions

Complexity

Epilogue: Decolonizing Dendê

Notes:

Revision of author's Ph. D. dissertation

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2021)

Other Format:

Print version Watkins, Case, 1976- Palm oil diaspora

ISBN:

9781108778893

1108778895

9781108808293

1108808298

OCLC:

1236897260

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license