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A Book Talk on Tales of the Post-Plantation: Unlikely Protagonists of Modern Philippine Banana History with the book's author, Robin Thiers.
When: November 26, 2024, 10:00 AM to 12:00 NN
Where: Pilar Herrera Hall, Palma Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman
This event serves as the official Philippine launch of Tales of the Post-Plantation, recently awarded the John C. Kaw Prize for Best Book on History at the 42nd National Book Awards. The program will feature discussants Dr. Patricio Abinales and Dr. Karl Friedrik Poblador.
View details and register here: bit.ly/banana112624
About the Book:
Since the late 1960s, the hinterland of the southern Philippine city of Davao has been the epicenter of commercial production and export of Cavendish bananas in Asia. Against a backdrop of elite interests pushing a paradigm of banana-plantation modernity, Robin Thiers opts to tell this sto
ry through the tales of more unlikely protagonists: small-scale farmers, a fungus, and the banana itself. Drawing on original fieldwork and transdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature, he pushes us to imagine plantations as more-than-human assemblages, both underpinning and subverting the imaginaries of capitalist discipline and anthropocentric control. Destabilizing the epistemic and ontological foundations of the modern plantation, this book is first and foremost an invitation: could we imagine a post-plantation?
About the Author:
Robin Thiers holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Ghent (Belgium), where he worked at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies. He obtained an MSc in Globalisation and Development from SOAS University of London (UK) and an MSc in Comparative and International Politics from the University of Leuven (Belgium).
