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Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Dr, St. John's, NL
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Join Lincoln Addison for the launch of Chiefs of the Plantation: Authority and Contestation on the South Africa-Zimbabwe Border. The event will take place in the Great Hall Exhibition Space, located on the main floor of Queen's College.
Lincoln Addison is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Depicting, in rich ethnographic detail, daily life on a plantation, Chiefs of the Plantation describes how agriculture has been restructured in the post-apartheid era through a delegation of authority from white landowners to black intermediaries. Addison explains that while this labour regime enables the profitability of plantations, it gives rise to a fragile moral economy in which perceptions of what is tolerable and what is exploitation frequently clash. In this environment, transactional sex and Christian worship emerge as important terrains of gendered and spiritual contestation where women and low-ranking workers remain resilient in the face of unequal power relations. Meanwhile, plantations project an appearance of benevolent paternalism, particularly in the narratives and self-identity of white landowners. This book reveals how, in the everyday life of the community, both the plantation and the compound where the workers live serve as central grounds for the negotiation of labour relations.