COVID-19 and the modern plantation: Debunking the neoliberal moral economy

Plantations have long been justified by moral and racial hierarchies that value specialised, export-oriented producers over domestic or subsistence-oriented producers. In this paper, I associate hierarchy with the neoliberal economy, explain its roots in classical political provide examples of workings argue Covid-19 crisis provides a crucial opportunity to debunk economy. Collective experiences food insecurity wrought pandemic expose fallacy central economic values underpinning industrial capitalist supply chains, such as comparative advantage. Shared chain failures, borne people global North well South, strengthen legitimacy alternatives.