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Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits. Drawing on extensive archival and qualitative contemporary research, The Plantation Ideal offers new insights into plantation economies, histories, and landscapes. Wendy Wolford tells the story of how the largely failed pursuit of plantation production has shaped agricultural science, government rule, life on the land, and community development in Mozambique from the harshest years of Portuguese colonization to the present.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 302
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Publication Date:
04 November 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520416864
Format: Paperback
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Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. She is author of This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil, coauthor of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, and coeditor of several books, including Governing Global Land Deals and The Social Lives of Land.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultivating Landscapes of Extraction
1. The Plantation Ideal
2. "Now Is the Time for New Innovations": A Political Economy of Discovery in Twentieth-Century Portuguese East Africa
3. "A Question of Habit": The Contemporary Dynamics of Plantation Science in Mozambique
4. "Incompatible with a Progressive Agriculture": The "Problem of Labor" in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
5. "It's a Shame It's So Difficult": Life in the Shadow of the Plantation Ideal
6. Awakening the Sleeping Giant: ProSavana, the Devil, and the Details
7. Afterward: Beyond Discovery, Extraction, and the Plantation Ideal
Coauthored with Natacha Bruna
Featuring contributions from Máriam Abbas, Teresa Cunha, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Anabela Lemos, Uacitissa Mandamule, Boaventura Monjane, Jan de Moor, and Bernhard Weimer
Notes
References
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultivating Landscapes of Extraction
1. The Plantation Ideal
2. "Now Is the Time for New Innovations": A Political Economy of Discovery in Twentieth-Century Portuguese East Africa
3. "A Question of Habit": The Contemporary Dynamics of Plantation Science in Mozambique
4. "Incompatible with a Progressive Agriculture": The "Problem of Labor" in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
5. "It's a Shame It's So Difficult": Life in the Shadow of the Plantation Ideal
6. Awakening the Sleeping Giant: ProSavana, the Devil, and the Details
7. Afterward: Beyond Discovery, Extraction, and the Plantation Ideal
Coauthored with Natacha Bruna
Featuring contributions from Máriam Abbas, Teresa Cunha, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Anabela Lemos, Uacitissa Mandamule, Boaventura Monjane, Jan de Moor, and Bernhard Weimer
Notes
References
Index