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    This text explores unlikely protagonists in the modern history of Philippine banana plantations. It begins by introducing a banana that was brought to Mindanao to start plantations based on discipline and standardized work. However, the project was not fully powerful on its own, as contract farmers found ways to side-sell bananas outside the plantations. The text then discusses a fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense TR4, that threatens commercial banana production in the Philippines and beyond. By tracing the fungus' impact, the foundations of the modern plantation system are called into question. The document suggests this trouble may be an opportunity to imagine alternatives to the plantation model.

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    This text explores unlikely protagonists in the modern history of Philippine banana plantations. It begins by introducing a banana that was brought to Mindanao to start plantations based on discipline and standardized work. However, the project was not fully powerful on its own, as contract farmers found ways to side-sell bananas outside the plantations. The text then discusses a fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense TR4, that threatens commercial banana production in the Philippines and beyond. By tracing the fungus' impact, the foundations of the modern plantation system are called into question. The document suggests this trouble may be an opportunity to imagine alternatives to the plantation model.

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    This text explores unlikely protagonists in the modern history of Philippine banana plantations. It begins by introducing a banana that was brought to Mindanao to start plantations based on discipline and standardized work. However, the project was not fully powerful on its own, as contract farmers found ways to side-sell bananas outside the plantations. The text then discusses a fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense TR4, that threatens commercial banana production in the Philippines and beyond. By tracing the fungus' impact, the foundations of the modern plantation system are called into question. The document suggests this trouble may be an opportunity to imagine alternatives to the plantation model.

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    This text explores unlikely protagonists in the modern history of Philippine banana plantations. It begins by introducing a banana that was brought to Mindanao to start plantations based on discipline and standardized work. However, the project was not fully powerful on its own, as contract farmers found ways to side-sell bananas outside the plantations. The text then discusses a fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense TR4, that threatens commercial banana production in the Philippines and beyond. By tracing the fungus' impact, the foundations of the modern plantation system are called into question. The document suggests this trouble may be an opportunity to imagine alternatives to the plantation model.

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    Tales of the post-plantation – Unlikely protagonists of modern Philippine banana history

    ... I wonder about plantations.. .

    This text is intended to invite. It is an invitation to imagine planta-


    tions otherwise, by letting ourselves be guided by the curious
    trajectories of multiple and unlikely protagonists.

    The story starts with the tale of A MODERN BANANA that disem-
    barks on the Philippine island of Mindanao. This first move stages
    a history of a powerful project of banana plantation modernity that
    comes to enrol people, crops and land to a particular discipline of
    work and life.

    TALES
    The second move tells the tales of FLYING BANANAS. By zooming
    in on the trajectories and practices of side-selling banana contract
    farmers, the project of banana plantation modernity turns out not
    to be powerful in and by itself. Rather, it has to be made powerful
    through particular practices of translation. These may fail. of the

    POST-PLANTATION
    The third move continues on this line of thought and tells the tales
    of A FUNGUS, named Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense TR4. As this
    lethal pathogen comes to threaten commercial banana production in
    the Philippines and beyond, the tales zoom in on the trajectories of
    banana growers, scientists and their fungal foe. Tracing the fungus’
    plantation-making presence, I find the epistemic and ontological Unlikely protagonists of modern
    foundations of the modern plantation are shaking. Perhaps, in the
    Philippine banana history
    midst of trouble, it is time to wonder ...

    Could we imagine a POST-PLANTATION? Robin Thiers

    Dissertation presented in fulfilment of the requirements


    for the degree of Doctor in Political Science - October 2019 - UGent

    ROBIN THIERS

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