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IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS - SOPHIE CHAO KARTON...

With In the Shadow of the Palms  Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil
palm plantations in West Papua  Indonesia  showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand
and navigate the social  political  and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao
notes  it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it
greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming.
Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua's
volatile history of colonization  ethnic domination  and capitalist incursion  Chao traces how
Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans  technologies  and capitalism but
also to the volition and actions of the oil palm plant itself. By approaching cash crops as
both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation  Chao rethinks capitalist
violence as a multispecies act. In the process  Chao centers how Marind fashion their own
changing worlds and foreground Indigenous creativity and decolonial approaches to anthropology.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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