The plantation and the mine: Comment on “After the land grab: Infrastructural violence and the ‘mafia system’ in Indonesia's oil palm plantation zone” by Tania Li

Tom Perreault

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.025

The plantation and the mine: Comment on “After the land grab: Infrastructural violence and the ‘mafia system’ in Indonesia's oil palm plantation zone” by Tania Li

Tom Perreault

Department of Geography and the Environment

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Abstract

This paper is a commentary on Tania Li's paper, “After the land grab: Infrastructural violence and the 'mafia system' in Indonesia's oil palm plantation zone.” In her paper, Tania Li considers plantations as a spatial, politico-economic and socionatural assemblage. Drawing on her recent work on African palm plantations in Indonesia, Li asks not only what is lost with the establishment of plantation, but also and perhaps more importantly, what is newly produced? The present paper notes the striking similarities between plantations and mines as territorialized sites of capital accumulation conditioned on radical ecological and social simplification.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	345-347
Number of pages	3
Journal	Geoforum
Volume	96
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.025
State	Published - Nov 2018

Keywords

Commentary
Enclave economies
Mines
Palm plantations
Resource extraction
Resource regimes
Total system

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Sociology and Political Science

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