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Plantation life : corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone / Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi.
Loaned to Another Library HD9490.5.P343 I5573 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Tania, 1959- author.
- Semedi, Pujo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palm oil industry--Social aspects--Indonesia.
- Palm oil industry.
- Palm oil industry--Environmental aspects--Indonesia.
- Plantation workers--Indonesia--Social conditions.
- Plantation workers.
- Farms, Small--Government policy--Indonesia.
- Farms, Small.
- Sustainable development--Indonesia.
- Sustainable development.
- Farms, Small--Government policy.
- Social conditions.
- Palm oil industry--Social aspects.
- Indonesia.
- Rural development--Indonesia.
- Rural development.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of contemporary palm oil plantations in Indonesia, which supply fifty percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' wellbeing is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecologies, injury among workers, and a devastating loss of livelihoods for former landholders, small-scale independent farmers produce palm oil more efficiently with far less damage to life and land. Li and Semedi theorize "corporate occupation" to underscore how massive forms of capitalist production and control over the palm oil industry replicate colonial-style relations that undermine citizenship. In so doing, they question the assumption that corporations are necessary for rural development, contending that the dominance of plantations stems from a political system that privileges corporations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Establishing plantations
- Holding workers
- Fragile plots
- Forms of life
- Corporate presence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Li, Tania, 1959- Plantation life.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013990
- 1478013990
- 9781478014959
- 1478014954
- OCLC:
- 1229088220
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