Project description
Indigenous contributions to the Atlantic colonial sugar industry
European colonisation of the Atlantic brought about significant land-use changes. As colonists dispossessed Indigenous populations and utilised their farming areas, they had to adapt to the productive criteria of the colonised societies. However, little is known about how adaptation took place. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the Sukkar project will conduct interdisciplinary research in the Canary Islands and the Dominican Republic to explore the connections between four 16th-century Canarian and Dominican sugar plantations and pre-colonial agriculture. By analysing the design and management of these plantations, researchers will identify their Indigenous cores and determine how colonial agriculture adapted to different production systems.
Objective
The European colonisation of the Atlantic brought about land-use change at a continental scale. As colonists invaded new regions, they dispossessed Indigenous populations and took advantage of their farming areas to build cash-cropping plantations. However, pre-colonial fields and their infrastructure had been designed according to different ways of organising production and were ill-suited for commercial agriculture. Thus, settlers were forced to partly accommodate the productive criteria of colonised societies. How the adaptation of Indigenous farming areas took place and how it both made possible and conditioned the development of colonial agriculture in the Atlantic remain unexplored. Sukkar aims to decisively tackle this issue by conducting comparative interdisciplinary research in the Canary Islands and the Dominican Republic. By combining the analysis of archival sources with the study of farming spaces and practices–through field surveying and GIS-based spatial analysis–, I will be able to explore the deep connections that four sixteenth-century Canarian and Dominican sugar plantations have with pre-colonial agriculture. Analysing the design and management of these plantations from a comparative perspective will allow me to identify their Indigenous cores and ascertain how colonial agriculture mutated through its interaction with different systems for organising production. Sukkar will be the first research project on the development of the colonial sugar industry to focus on the contributions made by colonised populations on both sides of the Atlantic. The Action's engagement with local knowledge will also highlight the cultural and ecological value of the agricultural landscapes and traditional practices of rural communities in the Canary Islands and the Dominican Republic and expose the pressing need to protect and nurture them.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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