Decolonial Cartographies

Abstract

What might an alternate cartography of a Plantationocene look and feel like? How might one move beyond models of enclosure and connectivity? This chapter looks at other ways through which both people and elephants make worlds amid plantations. Specifying other ontologies of nature, the chapter attends to how Adivasi communities understand and explain elephants’ worlds. It then posits a cartography of a Plantationocene that unfolds along tracks and trails, which unbind from the coercive arrangements of colonial enclosure. Tracks point to sites of resistance through which plantation logics might be overturned. They signal other possibilities for life and gesture towards decolonizing ecologies of a Plantationocene.