Anthropocene, Capitalocene, ... Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, ... Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises
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DOI：
10.1111/gec3.12438
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Williams, Brian
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作者：
Davis, Janae;Moulton, Alex A.;Williams, Brian
“种植园新世”在环境人文学科中获得了吸引力，作为一种概念化当前时代的方式，否则被称为人类世、资本世或Chthulucene。对于唐娜·哈拉威、安娜·青和他们的对话者来说，这个概念表明，我们当前的生态危机植根于环境现代化、同质化和控制的逻辑，这些逻辑是在历史上的种植园上发展起来的。本文认为，虽然确实有必要分析过去的种植园形成现在的方式，但目前关于种植园新世的讨论有几个关键的局限性。在这里，我们关注两点：首先，当前的多物种框架将种植园主要概念化为人类控制自然的系统，模糊了种族政治的中心地位；其次，新兴的“种植园新世”讨论尚未与现有的对种植园发展模式的各种批评进行有意义的接触。因此，我们借鉴了大量黑人地理和生态方面的工作，这些工作对种植园持续存在的殖民种族遗产提出了强有力的挑战，促使人们思考白人至上主义、资本主义发展以及（错误的）对人类意义的描述。这些方法不仅揭示了对种植园在当前全球危机中的作用的更细致和全面的分析，而且还强调了正在进行的斗争和未来生态正义的可能性。
The "Plantationocene" has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthulucene. For Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and their interlocutors, the concept suggests that our current ecological crisis is rooted in logics of environmental modernization, homogeneity, and control, which were developed on historical plantations. This paper argues that, while there is indeed a need to analyze the ways in which the plantation past shapes the present, current discussions of the Plantationocene have several crucial limitations. Here, we focus on two: first, the current multispecies framing conceptualizes the plantation largely as a system of human control over nature, obscuring the centrality of racial politics; and second, the emerging Plantationocene discussion has yet to meaningfully engage with the wide variety of existing critiques of the plantation mode of development. Thus, we draw on a deep well of Black geographic and ecological work that provides a powerful challenge to the ongoing colonial-racial legacies of the plantation, prompting consideration of white supremacy, capitalist development, and (mis)characterizations of what it means to be human. These approaches not only reveal a more nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of the plantation in current global crises but also highlight ongoing struggles and the possibilities of ecological justice in the future.