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S. Koshy, L.M. Cacho, J.A. Byrd, J. Jefferson (2022)
Colonial racial capitalism
S. Babidge, Nathália Dothling, Sarah Thomson, T. Riordan, Kirsty Wissing, Ainá Fernandes, Sara Muñoz (2023)
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Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the settler‐colonized region of Merauke, West Papua, In the Shadow of the Palms examines how Indigenous Marind communities experience, conceptualize, and contest the adverse impacts of industrial oil palm expansion on their intimate and ancestral relations to the landscape and its diverse human and other‐than‐human lifeforms. Grounding its analysis in Indigenous Marind philosophies, practices, and protocols of multispecies relationality, the work engages with broader questions surrounding the necrobiopolitics of the plantation as a fraught contact zone, where introduced cash crops like oil palm come to embody and perpetuate the extractive and disciplining violence of “colonial racial capitalism” (Koshy et al., 2022).As Warwick Anderson (2023) suggests, the Indigenous theories of life at the periphery of industrial monocrops presented in this work complicate seemingly facile binaries of all kinds – forest and plantation, human and non‐human, near‐kin and colonizer, among many others. This complexity surfaces most clearly in relation to the ontology of oil palm itself – a plant and person whom Marind resent as a threatening assailant of their multispecies lifeworld, but whom many also pity as a tragic victim to anthropogenic, institutional, and biotechnological manipulations that reduce it from lively organism to lethal
The Australian Journal of Anthropology – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 2023
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