Plantation Ideal

Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. She is author of This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil, coauthor of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, and coeditor of several books, including Governing Global Land Deals and The Social Lives of Land.

• Contents  List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments  Introduction: Cultivating Landscapes of Extraction1. The Plantation Ideal2. "Now Is the Time for New Innovations": A Political Economy of Discovery in Twentieth-Century Portuguese East Africa3. "A Question of Habit": The Contemporary Dynamics of Plantation Science in Mozambique4. "Incompatible with a Progressive Agriculture": The "Problem of Labor" in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique5. "It's a Shame It's So Difficult": Life in the Shadow of the Plantation Ideal6. Awakening the Sleeping Giant: ProSavana, the Devil, and the Details7. Afterward: Beyond Discovery, Extraction, and the Plantation IdealCoauthored with Natacha BrunaFeaturing contributions from Máriam Abbas, Teresa Cunha, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Anabela Lemos, Uacitissa Mandamule, Boaventura Monjane, Jan de Moor, and Bernhard Weimer  NotesReferencesIndex