“(Un)Worlding the Plantationocene: Extraction, Extinction, Emergence”
“This article explores how tropical plantation lifeworlds are made and unmade through more-than-human forms of extraction, extinction, and emergence.”
plantations
“Plantation”
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.
“Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure”
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.
The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century
Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 14
Yuyos
This film is an audio-visual ethnographic project lived together with the peasant family Franco Gauto, in Colonia Luz Bella, rural Paraguay.
Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 26
"Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector"
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 29
Mobilization against Genetically Modified Organisms in Portugal
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 23