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Taking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book
examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive,
socio-political and ecological forms throughout imperial and
post-colonial worlds spanning multiple and broad temporalities.
Showcasing an expansive range of case studies across different
geographies, the collection sheds light on the heterogeneity of
plantations and offers insights into the afterlives, spectres and
remnants of systems that have been analysed as schemes of
production, extraction and authority. Focusing on the expansion of
plantation systems throughout various political-economic and
ecological projects, and across the modern (and post-modern)
period, allows the authors to move beyond analyses that often deal
with individual empires through human-centered lenses. The
contributors explore resistance to the mechanisms of extraction and
control that plantations and their afterlives demanded, shedding
light on their excesses, contradictions, failures and deviations.
Offering a comprehensive treatment of global plantations, this book
provides valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the
socio-political and environmental effects of colonialism and
imperialism in their various guises. Chapters 1, 8 and 11 are
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their
connection to other activists and how does that change over time?
How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and
evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How
does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in
contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively,
examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008
protests in Greece to the recent chto delat in Russia. Contributors
in the first section of this volume highlight the affective
dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in
which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of
resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the
second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and
critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political
structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel
approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to
reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political
anthropology.
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their
connection to other activists and how does that change over time?
How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and
evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How
does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in
contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively,
examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008
protests in Greece to the recent chto delat in Russia. Contributors
in the first section of this volume highlight the affective
dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in
which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of
resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the
second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and
critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political
structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel
approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to
reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political
anthropology.
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