Wolf, Anna-Lena (2022). Beyond “Enclaves”: Postcolonial Labor Mobility to and from Assam Tea Plantations. Anthropology of work review, 43(1), pp. 49-58. Wiley 10.1111/awr.12235
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Labor mobility to and from tea plantations in India has been treated as an exception. Plantations continue to be imagined as unaltered enclaves with an immobile, bonded, or fixed labor force as their key feature. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India, this article investigates forms of labor mobility to and from Assam tea plantations. While tea labor is not spatially immobile, I argue that spatial mobility does not necessarily lead to upward social mobility. Based on this observation, I reconsider the plantation in the twenty-first century in two ways: first, plantations are permeable and transforming spaces, due to ongoing labor mobility and evolving changes in the political economy of Assam tea production; second, certain forms of inequality and injustice attributed to plantation economies need to be located beyond the Plantationocene.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wolf, Anna-Lena |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0883-024X |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jana Samira Lamatsch |
Date Deposited: |
22 Sep 2023 09:19 |
Last Modified: |
22 Sep 2023 09:19 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1111/awr.12235 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/186464 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186464 |
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