Palm Oil Diaspora - Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia''s Dende Coast

Engaging disciplines from across the sciences and humanities, this book bridges literature on Black geographies, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, political ecology, and decolonial theory and praxis to analyze the cultural, ecological, and economic relationships that link and shape societies and environments.

List of contents

1. Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy; 2. African and Atlantic Worlds; 3. Creolization; 4. An Afro-Brazilian landscape; 5. South Atlantic exchange; 6. Landscapes, religions, transitions; 7. Complexity; Epilogue: decolonizing dendê.

About the author

Case Watkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University. He co-authored Hispanic and Latino New Orleans (2015), winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize in 2015.

Product details

• Authors: Case Watkins, Case (James Madison University Watkins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108478823
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47882-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, The environment, Economic history, Science / Environmental Science, History of the Americas