Affiliation:
1. Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Portugal
Abstract
In this article, I use the concept of ‘plant-people intimacies’ for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed landscapes of plantation Hawai‘i, where sugar canes, pineapples and other crops replaced the traditional taro gardens and displaced their human gardeners while producing a multi-ethnic population with migrant workers-settlers. I will analyse how evocations of special bonds to some crops among diasporic persons express a vegetal nexus with ancestral geographies and act as a code to negotiate social and historical positionalities.
Funder
H2020 European Research Council
Subject
Plant Science,Anthropology,Animal Science and Zoology
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