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In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

Chao, Sophie

Hardcover

AnthropologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1478015616
ISBN13: 9781478015611
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 24 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming. Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua's volatile history of colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion, Chao traces how Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans, technologies, and capitalism but also to the volition and actions of the oil palm plant itself. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, Chao rethinks capitalist violence as a multispecies act. In the process, Chao centers how Marind fashion their own changing worlds and foreground Indigenous creativity and decolonial approaches to anthropology.

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