Plantation Ideal

Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique

AvWendy Wolford

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Del 18 i serien Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

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Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits. Drawing on extensive archival and qualitative contemporary research, The Plantation Ideal offers new insights into plantation economies, histories, and landscapes. Wendy Wolford tells the story of how the largely failed pursuit of plantation production has shaped agricultural science, government rule, life on the land, and community development in Mozambique from the harshest years of Portuguese colonization to the present.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520416864

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Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. She is author of This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil, coauthor of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, and coeditor of several books, including Governing Global Land Deals and The Social Lives of Land.

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Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Cultivating Landscapes of Extraction1. The Plantation Ideal2. "Now Is the Time for New Innovations": A Political Economy of Discovery in Twentieth-Century Portuguese East Africa3. "A Question of Habit": The Contemporary Dynamics of Plantation Science in Mozambique4. "Incompatible with a Progressive Agriculture": The "Problem of Labor" in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique5. "It's a Shame It's So Difficult": Life in the Shadow of the Plantation Ideal6. Awakening the Sleeping Giant: ProSavana, the Devil, and the Details7. Afterward: Beyond Discovery, Extraction, and the Plantation IdealCoauthored with Natacha BrunaFeaturing contributions from Máriam Abbas, Teresa Cunha, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Anabela Lemos, Uacitissa Mandamule, Boaventura Monjane, Jan de Moor, and Bernhard Weimer NotesReferencesIndex