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"Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and prior human rights advocacy in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua, In the Shadow of the Palms explores how deforestation and monocrop oil palm expansion reconfigure the multispecies lifeworld of Indigenous Marind communities through its effects on the landscape, time, personhood, and dreams. Working with and across species categories and hierarchies, the book highlights how the proliferation of industrial monocrops subverts the futures and relations of some lifeforms while opening new horizons of possibility for others. Sophie Chao situates these dynamics within West Papua's violent and volatile history of political colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, the book makes a compelling argument for rethinking capitalist violence as a multispecies act. Taking oil palm as its central protagonist, it makes a timely contribution to our understanding of human-environment relations in an age of radical ecological change"--

Palm oil industry --- Plantation workers --- Sustainable development --- Rural development --- Deforestation --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Deforestation. --- Déboisement --- Développement durable --- Développement rural --- Entwaldung. --- Huile de palme --- Indonesien. --- Ländliche Entwicklung. --- Palm oil industry. --- Palmöl. --- Palmölindustrie. --- Rural development. --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Soziale Lage. --- Sustainable development. --- Travailleurs des plantations --- Umweltbelastung. --- Industrie --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Conditions sociales --- Indonesia --- Provinz Papua. --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- ecology --- environmental protection --- pollution