Archaeology in the Plantationocene

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Plantation economies shaped the world we live in by establishing new relationships between humans, but also between humanity and the rest of the planet. This world-ecology, which Donna Haraway and others have called the Plantationocene, is grounded on modes of extraction, accumulation, and circulation that also defined the emergence of archaeology as scientific practice and continue to shape the ways in which we think about past, present, and future. Drawing from ongoing fieldwork in Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau and the South of Portugal, I will discuss my positionality as an historical archaeologist in the context of long-term struggles for emancipation in different geographies and call for the aquilombamento of the discipline.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation

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