Colonial Agricultural Modernities: Capital, Concepts, Circulations
March 22–23, 2018
This workshop explores the historical intertwinement of different plantation complexes over the longue durée of modern global capitalism. We are interested in connections among colonial agrarian regimes that emerge through the mobility of money, credit, and capital; the governance of land frontiers; systems of racialized and gendered labor recruitment; legal regimes that adjudicate shifting ideas about rights, property, and personhood; and overlapping networks of imperial science and colonial ecology. We are also concerned with counter-histories of resistance, collective action, and programs for reparative justice that illuminate the ongoing challenges of our present time. We seek to frame new questions about the history of plantation regimes that reveal relations and entanglements across oceans and continents, across different imperial and national formations, and across different time periods.
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Participants
Sascha
Auerbach
University of Nottingham
Ulbe
Bosma
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Claiton Marcio
Da Silva
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul
Andreas
Eckert
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Leida
Fernández Prieto
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid
Alberto
Alonso-Fradejas
Transnational Institute, Leiden
Dilip
Gaonkar
Northwestern University
Vincent
Houben
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Preben
Kaarsholm
Roskilde University, Denmark, re:work - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ulrike
Kirchberger
Universität Kassel
Rachel
Kurian
Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities, Rotterdam
Zach
Sell
Brown University
Daniel
Schönpflug
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
On
Barak
Tel Aviv University, re:work - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin