Plantation Roads and the Impositions of Infrastructure
An Archaeology of Movement at Good Hope Estate, Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18975602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hayden F Bassett (0000-0002-1339-7540, Virginia Museum of Natural History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-73 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-9441 • E-ISSN: 2161-9468 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21619441.2020.1840834 |
| OpenAlex | W3103885931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
Studies of plantation surveillance have provided important understandings of the material dimensions of elite power and control over enslaved people. These studies have emphasized inter-visibility of managerial housing and the living/working spaces of enslaved people, as a panoptic strategy to enforce self-discipline. This emphasis on inter-visibility of living and working spaces, however, assumes a static population, rather than a complex, industrial society in motion. Using Space Syntax analysis, cartographic records, historic travelers’ accounts, and landscape documentation, this study addresses surveillance and planter control through a mobilities approach, elevating the status of road networks, while identifying the plantation as a carefully orchestrated landscape of movement. I demonstrate how understanding the manner in which movement is limited or itinerated, and for whom, represents a productive avenue of research at the intersection of inequality, control, and mobility. This approach is developed through a distinct archaeology of infrastructure
Aesthetics · Documentation · Elite · Estate · Geography · Mobilities · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Space syntax · Visibility · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
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Flow
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |