Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Sidney W. Mintz

Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar

“…Sugar has been “one of the massive demographic forces in world history” (Mintz 1985, 71), and the sugar commodity frontiers illustrate “the fundamentally restless nature of world capitalism” (Moore 2000, 414). A frontier is a zone beyond which further expansion and forward movement of the capitalist system is possible, and traditional commodity frontiers have profoundly transformed land and labor (Moore 2000, 412).…”

“…Postcolonial plantations like Anjava particularly manifest “the ensemble of relations characterized by private and unequal ownership of the means of production,” in which non‐owners are “compelled to sell their labor … to generate profit under competitive conditions” (Li 2014, 8). Growing sugarcane is labor‐intensive and requires large amounts of land and water (Curtin 1990; Mintz 1985). As discussed in the previous section, a population of landless migrant workers dependent on seasonal jobs and precarious cash income was already created during the French era.…”

Decolonising Psychology: Reflections on Continuing Myopia

“…Sugar was first used only by the rich, then it penetrated the lives of the middle class, and is now consumed more by the poor than it is by the middle class. Its importance and popularity rose together with tea, colonial slavery and with the machine era (Mintz, 1985).Colonisation is about manifest and subtle differences in power and their consequences. According to Swartz (1997, p. 89), Bourdieu understood symbolic power as having the ability 'to impose the means for comprehending and adapting to the social world by representing economic and political power in disguised, taken-for-granted forms'.…”

“…Sugar was first used only by the rich, then it penetrated the lives of the middle class, and is now consumed more by the poor than it is by the middle class. Its importance and popularity rose together with tea, colonial slavery and with the machine era (Mintz, 1985).…”

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