multi-species entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua
She was not just a great writer, but she was an hero who spoke the minds of people living around the Marina communities. Sophie Chao’s new book clearly striped out the impacts of oil palm plantations on Marind communities in West Papua. Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao note stood strongly pointed facts suffered from damages it caused, it was no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming. Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua’s volatile history of colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion, Chao traces how Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans, technologies, and cap