Palm Oil

The Grease of Empire

Palm Oil
Max Haiven
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Paperback
h215 x 110mm - 160pg
20 Apr 2022 UK
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9780745345826
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Palm oil is a commodity like no other. Found in half of supermarket products, from food to cosmetics to plastics, it has shaped the world in which we live. In Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, Max Haiven tells a sweeping story that touches on everything from empire to art, from war to food, and from climate change to racial capitalism. By tracing the global history of this ubiquitous elixir we see how capitalism creates surplus populations: people made dependent on capitalist wages but denied the opportunity to earn them - a proportion of humanity that is growing in our age of racialised and neo-colonial dispossession. Inspired by revolutionary writers like Eduardo Galeano, Saidiya Hartman, C. L. R. James and Rebecca Solnit, this kaleidoscopic and experimental book seeks to weave a story of the past in the present and the present in the past.
' Powerfully demonstrates how, by following the history of a key commodity, we can reconstruct the logic of imperial capitalism: its destruction of land and bodies, its drive to constantly reduce the means of our reproduction, its relentless production of oppressive regimes. The story it narrates is crucial for our understanding of the terrains of struggle and the material conditions of solidarity between different social justice movements' -- Silvia Federici ' Jampacked with insights that will surprise and haunt readers, Haiven' s arguments about the centrality of palm oil to colonial history and modern life are compelling, persuasive, and far-reaching' -- Andrew Ross, author of ' Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel'
Max Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Revenge Capitalism, Art after Money, Money after Art, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power and The Radical Imagination.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780745345826
Published: 20 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 110mm
Pages: 160

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