Plantationocene and Contemporary Agrarian Struggles

Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer C. Franco

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2024, vol. 114, issue 10, 2216-2221

Abstract: Wolford’s (2021) article on the Plantationocene compels us to reexamine the state of agrarian struggles today in relation to struggles within and against capitalism. Although contemporary agrarian movements are relatively vibrant overall, their movement organizations and alliances tend to be sectoral and localized, and plantation workers remain weakly organized. This commentary argues that agrarian struggles can become more relevant if they are better embedded within broader anticapitalist struggles; conversely, broad anticapitalist struggles are better grounded if they are linked to contemporary agrarian struggles. The Plantationocene scholarship validates this point; moreover, scholarship on the Plantationocene can be enriched by engagement with studies on agrarian struggles.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2224855

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