Plantations : extraction, extinction, emergence / Sophie Chao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chao, Sophie, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantations--Social aspects.

Plantations.

Plantations--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Plantations are major drivers of biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change. They find root in (neo)colonial logics of mastery and progress that position nature as a passive resource, exploited to serve (certain) humans' ends. Yet the rise and fall of plantations have never been determined entirely by those humans and institutions who claim to create and control them. Rather, plantations are animated by entangled processes of multispecies extraction, extinction, and emergence. This Element considers the violence and vulnerabilities engendered by plantations for differently positioned humans and non-humans-from indentured labourers, displaced communities, and environmental activists, to soils, parasites, and crops. It examines how acts of resistance, alliance, and solidarity have challenged the dominance of plantations over places, plants, and peoples. Approaching plantations as fertile sites for theorizing inter- and intra-human relations, the Element unearths in their troubled terrains unexpected yet urgent possibilities for cultivating counter-plantation futures and multispecies justice."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Extraction

Extinction

Emergence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 17, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Chao, Sophie. Plantations.

ISBN:

9781009531245

1009531247

OCLC:

1581823381

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381718

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license