Published In
Journal of Peasant Studies
Document Type
Pre-Print
Publication Date
3-15-2023
Subjects
Wastewater -- Management, Wastewater -- United States -- Law and legislation, Water quality management
Abstract
Sugar plantations have fundamentally shaped water use in Maui, Hawai’i for over 100 years, with tremendous resulting impacts on ecosystems and Native Hawaiian communities. In this paper, we build on literature on the plantationocene and the political lives of infrastructure to examine plantation irrigation infrastructure. We center Maui’s vast water conveyance ditch system as a means of understanding how infrastructure continues plantation logics into the present, considering both the physical ditches themselves as well as the laws and politics which support continued water extraction. We also consider infrastructural futures, highlighting ongoing efforts of communities seeking water justice via infrastructural control.
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DOI
10.1080/03066150.2023.2185140
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39726
Citation Details
Published as: Kay, K., Knudson, C., & Cantor, A. (2023). Plantation pasts, plantation futures: resisting zombie water infrastructures in Maui, Hawai’i. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–24.
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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.