@article{ofstehage_2023, title={Making soil in the Plantationocene}, ISSN={["1743-9361"]}, DOI={10.1080/03066150.2023.2266705}, abstractNote={Based on 14 months of ethnographic research, this paper analyzes soil management within the plantation model of farmingin order to understand the extent to which life on large-scale monocultural farms can be controlled and directed toward extractiveproduction. Transnational soy farmers in Western Bahia Brazil ‘correct’ soils in the region to make them productive and marshal thisagronomic work to claim that they have added value to the land by ‘building it up’. Still, the permeability of the plantation keepstransnational farmers from achieving their dreams of control.}, journal={JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES}, author={Ofstehage, Andrew}, year={2023}, month={Nov} }
 @article{chao_wolford_ofstehage_guttal_goncalves_ayala_2023, title={The Plantationocene as analytical concept: a forum for dialogue and reflection}, ISSN={["1743-9361"]}, DOI={10.1080/03066150.2023.2228212}, abstractNote={This forum for dialogue and reflection invites empirical and theoretical inquiries that critically interrogate plantations in their myriad forms through the conceptual analytic of the Plantationocene. In doing so, we understand, and invite attention to, the Plantationocene, both as a key for interpreting histories of local to global development and for understanding the role of plantationlogics today. Not all contributors need agree that the Plantationocene is a useful concept. Rather, we envision the forum as providing opportunity for constructive debate and for highlighting the role of plantations across historical and contemporary sites, scales, and subjects.}, journal={JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES}, author={Chao, Sophie and Wolford, Wendy and Ofstehage, Andrew and Guttal, Shalmali and Goncalves, Euclydes and Ayala, Fernanda}, year={2023}, month={Jul} }