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Plantation Peripheries : = The Multiple Makings of Asia's Banana Republic.

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Title/Author:	Plantation Peripheries :/
Reminder of title:	The Multiple Makings of Asia's Banana Republic.
Author:	Paredes, Alyssa Dawn Esquivel.
Description:	1 online resource (434 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-12B.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
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ISBN:	9798516929007

Plantation Peripheries : = The Multiple Makings of Asia's Banana Republic.
Paredes, Alyssa Dawn Esquivel.

Plantation Peripheries :The Multiple Makings of Asia's Banana Republic. - 1 online resource (434 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates the interplay between externalized costs and surplus value in the production of a globally beloved and prototypically cheap commodity, the banana. Based on 24 months of immersive ethnographic research, it tracks the dramatic shifts that occur between the Southern Philippine region of Mindanao, where export bananas are among the most resource-intensive of all agricultural industries, to Japanese urban centers in Tokyo and Fukuoka, where they are ubiquitous supermarket staples that sell for cheap. Like all long-distance traders, Filipino exporters and their Japanese importers rely on the strategies of supply chain management to promote predictability, contain disruptions, and orchestrate alignment between institutions. While their notions of the supply chain render the commodity as a singular and static object, this dissertation argues that understanding how human and environmental externalities become sources of capital accumulation demands an approach that sees any given commodity as fundamentally multiple and shape-shifting. Fieldwork for this research revealed that the conventions of crop science, toxic chemical regulatory paradigms, market segmentation techniques, and food quality standards are overlooked arenas where actors contend over what should and what should not be considered a part of the commodity chain's production calculus. This dissertation therefore chronicles how local actors on the plantation's periphery and the market's margins reinsert themselves into the very calculations that efface them. Plantation Peripheries is composed of six chapters. Chapter 1, "Fusarium is a Grace from God!" argues that the ground is the most taken-for-granted assumption of the production-consumption nexus. It takes the commodity study down into the soil underfoot and up into the realm of the divine as it documents the Philippine banana industry's battle against a disease resulting from the constant process of externalizing the cost of soil health, Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race 4. It demonstrates how new forms of collaboration and contestation become apparent when considering the distribution networks under the ground as they operate alongside those above it. Chapter 2, "We Are Not Pests," in turn, lifts this study up into the air and into human bodies, spaces that consistently escape the commodity chain metaphor, in its study of chemical drift from crop dusters. This chapter follows Davao resident-activists' anti-aerial spraying campaign in response to unjust externalizations. Situating their story in the global discourse on toxics and politics, it investigates how locals navigated around a case of "mixed chemical exposure," which overlapped problematically with court litigation.Chapters 3 and 4 bridge the discussion on cost with that on value. "Follow the Yellow Brix Road" explores taste not only as a physical sensation, but also as a physiological phenomenon that is a product of the costly transformation of mountain landscapes. It recounts how Filipino and Japanese traders forged links between sweetness and cultivation altitude in the creation of a segmented market that categorizes bananas into lowland, midland, and highland grades. Japanese retailers collect double the standard price for highland bananas, but these premiums call to question how they approximate the expense entailed in plantation expansion into the Philippine mountainside. Chapter 4, "Eating with the Eyes, Blinded by Shadows," focuses on the creation of food cosmetic standards, and describes how making bananas look "clean," "safe," and "honest" when they reach Japan generates the ugly truths of pollution, health hazards and trade secrecy on Philippine plantations, phenomena all concealed by blemish-less peels.The final section focuses on what it means for a commodity chain to "create value." Chapter 5, "The Mono and Koto of Balangon Bananas" interrogates the possibility of a trade network brought together not only by a commodity, but also by an idea like transnational political solidarity. This chapter tells the story of an alternative distribution system in balangon bananas, a backyard-grown wild variety of Cavendish that serves as a window onto the political peripheries of modern economic systems. Finally, Chapter 6, "I, Too, Am Food," offers the story of the Green Coop Consumers Cooperative in Japan, a primary consumer of balangon bananas, as a corrective to approaches that see the commodity chain as ending at purchase. Spurred by stories that implicate Japanese consumerism in the strife on Philippine banana plantations and beyond, middle-class consumers drive the chain well beyond the material bounds of commodities, tying the home, supermarket, and neighborhood to larger political visions for society. The Conclusion ties together common themes of the dissertation and elaborates on future directions for research.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798516929007Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179959
Cultural anthropology.
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554714
Electronic books.

Plantation Peripheries : = The Multiple Makings of Asia's Banana Republic.
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