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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, March 06, 2025 3:30 pm to 5:00 
 pm \n JHB100 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St. George Street, 1st
  floor \n\nDescription: \nOn the banana plantations of the Southern Philip
 pines, activists involved in an anti-chemical campaign decry their exposu
 re to pesticide drift as an infringement on both their person and their pe
 rsonhood. Such forms of dehumanization draw the plantation worlds of South
 east Asia and the Black Atlantic into a tight embrace. This paper offers t
 he notion of “plantation liberalism” as a provocation for overcoming some 
 of the “regional closets” that persist in Asian Studies, and argues that 
 such a conceptual, methodological, and political commitment will be crit
 ical for an era many have called the Plantationocene. Plantation liberalis
 m is the property-oriented vision of personhood introduced by agrarian col
 onialism that continues to define the contours of environmental activism t
 oday. To trace its genealogy in the Philippines, this paper outlines how 
 American planters of the early 20th century drew on racial ideologies, in
 herited from the Antebellum South, to project limited personhood onto Min
 danao’s Indigenous Peoples and to impose private property as the path towa
 rds their “benevolent assimilation” into the American empire. It then demo
 nstrates how those ideals became the narrative terrain on which activists 
 continue to articulate environmental campaigns, and on which their claims
  for justice continue to be adjudicated. By illuminating the transfer of t
 hese ideas between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic, this paper
  seeks modes of transregional scholarship attentive to connection and comp
 arison, but sensitive to the contingencies of historical context.About Pr
 ofessor Paredes:Alyssa Paredes is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at t
 he University of Michigan, A\n Arbor. She is an environmental and economi
 c anthropologist researching plantation agriculture, transnational trade\
 , and social justice activism between the Philippines and Japan. Her work 
 appears in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Antipode: A Radical Journal o
 f Geography, the Journal of Political Ecology, Gastronomica, and Food,
  Culture & Society, as well as in the edited collections The Promise of M
 ultispecies Justice (Duke University Press, 2022) and Feral Atlas: The Mo
 re-than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2020). She is also
  co-editor of the forthcoming volume Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Env
 ironments Behind Filipino Food (University of Hawaii Press, 2025). She ho
 lds a PhD with distinction from Yale University.REGISTER HERE \n\nContact 
 Information: \n Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies cdts.admin@uto
 ronto.ca Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies \n\nSponsors \nCentre
  for Diaspora & Transnational Studies \n170 St. George Street, 1st floor 
 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:170 St. George Street, 1st floor
SUMMARY:Plantation Liberalism: A Genealogy of Personhood, Property, and A
 ctivism between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic
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 m-genealogy-personhood-property-and-activism-between-philippine-mindanao
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