Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2023.2227576
Doron Eldar, David Jansson
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ABSTRACT As a way to address the current postcolonial moment, characteristic of ongoing relations of resource extraction and border control, we turn to the metaphor of the plantation, offering an interpretation of Katherine McKittrick’s idea of plantation logics. Plantation museums, centered on former planters’ mansions (the ‘big house’) in the U.S., are important vehicles for narrating the historical period of slavery. However, such historical sites have traditionally steered away from addressing the role of enslavement in the production of the space of the big house. This erasure of the enslaved obscures the spatial and social relationality of the plantation. While continental Europe lacks these plantation houses and thus museums, it is no less important for the former colonial states in Europe to narrate their own historical involvement in slavery and, equally important, its contemporary legacies. In both contexts, we see a selective remembering of the past that is grounded in a spatial and temporal distancing of the plantation that renders the centrality of slavery to the production and reproduction of Europe invisible. In this article, we use the metaphor of the big house to illustrate how the logic of the plantation is replicated across scales of time and space. We argue that a failure to recognize the ongoing reality of the plantation logic as embodied by the European big house enables its reproduction, including in the environmental catastrophe of the Plantationocence. A consideration of Maroon geographies explores narrations of the plantation that point to a way forward to alternative futures.
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欧洲作为一个大房子——考察当代欧洲的种植园逻辑
摘要:在当前以资源开采和边境控制为特征的后殖民时代,我们转向种植园的隐喻,对凯瑟琳·麦基特里克的种植园逻辑思想进行解读。种植园博物馆以美国前种植园主的豪宅(“大房子”)为中心,是叙述奴隶制历史时期的重要工具。然而,这些历史遗址传统上避开了解决大房子空间生产中奴役的作用。这种对奴隶的抹去模糊了种植园的空间和社会关系。虽然欧洲大陆缺乏这些种植园和博物馆,但对于欧洲的前殖民国家来说,讲述他们自己在奴隶制方面的历史参与同样重要,同样重要的是,它的当代遗产。在这两种情况下,我们都看到了对过去的选择性记忆,这是建立在种植园的空间和时间距离上的,这使得奴隶制对欧洲生产和再生产的中心地位变得不可见。在本文中,我们使用大房子的比喻来说明种植园的逻辑是如何跨时间和空间尺度复制的。我们认为,未能认识到欧洲大房子所体现的种植园逻辑的持续现实,使其得以再生产,包括在种植园时代的环境灾难中。对栗色地理的思考探索了种植园的叙述,指出了通往另一种未来的道路。
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Social Identities
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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