Conclusion: A Reverse Déjà Vu

This brief conclusion visits the Plantationocene as an analytic and as a contemporary condition. A situated and grounded account of planetary transformations challenges some of the familiar idioms of the Anthropocene, bringing a raft of political and ecological questions to the fore. The more-than-human ethnography and historical analysis given in this book offer a different account of questions of agency, relation, politics, and ontology than that salient in political ecology, posthumanism, and the environmental humanities. The chapter concludes by outlining what is at stake for future livability amid plantation worlds.