Plantationocene: A Vegetal Geography

A Plantationocene is a threshold for understanding planetary change. Rather than attributing environmental transformations to the universal agency of humankind, grounds alteration landscape in histories colonialism and race, takes plantation be pivotal engine producing novel but fraught natures. This article develops vegetal geography Plantationocene, engaging relations between plants people as well role play mediators habitability landscape. It argues that such geographies influence are underscored by exploitation labor, violent enclosures land, quest profit from both human other-than-human life. Vegetal tracked three conceptual registers: put into circulation plantations, economies centered on labor power work do, politics change proceeding though an ecology asymmetric exercise power. reading its brings scholarship closer dialogue with colonial history postcolonial political economy. The argument grounded ethnography Adivasi community, elephants, tea plantations Assam, northeast India.