Tag: Plantationocene
-
Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing
in PodcastsPlantations discipline both plants and people. Two scholars reckon with the Plantationocene to develop a shared vision of multispecies justice.
-
Excavating Haitian Histories
in ExhibitsHaitian political history, Taíno artifacts, colonial plantations, and even cholera bacteria leave their marks on the land in Kwynn Johnson’s 30-foot panoramic drawing of Cap Haitien.
-
Plantation Housing Isn’t the Answer to Homelessness in Hawaiʻi
in PodcastsA “plantation-style community” might ease houselessness in Hawaiʻi. But it also erases violent histories of labor exploitation and Native dispossession. Leanne Day and Rebecca Hogue discuss Kahauiki Village and the dangers of plantation nostalgia.
-
How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery
in ExhibitsWhat haunts the land? Artists R.L. Martens and Bii Robertson dig up the tangled history of “the vampire crop,” slavery, and soil exhaustion in Maryland, revealing that the past is more present than you might think.
-
A Search for Repair in the Wake of the Plantation
in ExhibitsAn audio-visual essay by Deborah A. Thomas responds to the 2010 state of emergency in West Kingston, Jamaica, known as the “Tivoli Incursion” and asks how archiving affects—not just events—might be a way to re-imagine justice, politics, and repair.
-
Plantation Legacies
in EssaysThe Anthropocene gives a name to human-caused environmental change. The Plantationocene puts colonialism, capitalism, and enduring racial hierarchies at the center of the conversation and asks what past and future modes of resistance might emerge.