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Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: In this article, I use the concept of ‘plant-people intimacies’ for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed landscapes of plantation Hawai‘i, where sugar canes, pineapples and other crops replaced the traditional taro gardens and displaced their human gardeners while producing a multi-ethnic population with migrant workers-settlers. I will analyse how evocations of special bonds to some crops among diasporic persons express a vegetal nexus with ancestral geographies and act as a code to negotiate social and historical positionalities.

Source: Journal of Ethnobiology

DOI: 10.1177/02780771231221643

Author: Cristiana Bastos

Institutions: University of Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,200

Funders: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020 European Research Council