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Plantation life : corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone

Title

Plantation life : corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone / Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi.

Author

Li, Tania, 1959-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Semedi, Pujo

Description

xii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of contemporary palm oil plantations in Indonesia, which supply fifty percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' wellbeing is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecologies, injury among workers, and a devastating loss of livelihoods for former landholders, small-scale independent farmers produce palm oil more efficiently with far less damage to life and land. Li and Semedi theorize "corporate occupation" to underscore how massive forms of capitalist production and control over the palm oil industry replicate colonial-style relations that undermine citizenship. In so doing, they question the assumption that corporations are necessary for rural development, contending that the dominance of plantations stems from a political system that privileges corporations"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Establishing plantations -- Holding workers -- Fragile plots -- Forms of life -- Corporate presence.

ISBN

9781478013990
1478013990
9781478014959
1478014954
9781478022237 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021003038

OCLC

on1229088220
1229088220
SCSB-14035791

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library