Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru's nineteenth-century guano boom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lola Loustaunau (0000-0002-7598-9461, University of Oregon, Sociology, Eugene, OR, USA, corresponding author), Mauricio Betancourt (0000-0001-9470-0056, University of Oregon, Sociology, Eugene, OR, USA), Brett Clark (0000-0002-3929-1322, The University of Utah, Sociology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA), John Bellamy Foster (0000-0001-7418-3004, University of Oregon, Sociology, Eugene, OR, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 511-535 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2021.1979966 |
| OpenAlex | W3211049476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 46 |
Building on the theory of ecological imperialism in the context of the Peruvian guano boom, this analysis explores the metabolic rift in the human relation to external nature and the corresponding corporeal rift in the destruction of human bodily existence. Guano capitalists robbed Peru of the manure deposited by seabirds, while British imperialism introduced a system of racialized expropriation (the 'coolie trade'), referred to by Karl Marx as 'worse than slavery.' Previous failures to understand this historical tragedy were due to the legal forms adopted, which categorized as semi-free labor what was in fact the social murder of the workers
Archaeology · Biology · Boom · Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · Expropriation · Guano · Market economy · Rift · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · Political Economy and Marxism
Free Trade's First Missionary
Ecological Imperialism
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
The Latin American Economies
The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly
Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom
Colonialism and Migration; Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery
The Ten Cents War
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism
The Du Bois nexus
Chinese emigration in global context, 1850–1940
The Economic History Review
Proyectos de inmigración africana en el Perú (1860-1871)
Chinese coolie labour in Cuba in the nineteenth century
Chinese Indentured Labor
Coolies, Shopkeepers, Pioneers
Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift
The First Green Revolution
The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
The Plebeian Republic
Open Veins of Latin America
European impact on Easter Island
The Coolie Trade
The Coolie Speaks. Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Some Observations on Unfree Labour, Capitalist Restructuring, and Deproletarianization
Making Coolies, (Un)making Workers
The ?transitional man? in nineteenth-century Latin America
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Unfree labour as primitive accumulation
Chinese Plantation Workers and Social Conflict in Peru in the late Nineteenth Century
The Second Agricultural Revolution, 1815-1880
A Primitive Export Sector
Foreign Contractors and the Peruvian Government at the Outset of the Guano Trade
The Export Economies. Their Pattern of Development in Historical Perspective
Chinese Bondage in Peru, a History of the Chinese Coolie in Peru, 1849-1874
Beyond Hawai'i
Capitalist Unfree Labour
Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift
De-naturalizing ecological disaster
The theory of unequal ecological exchange
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |