Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa

10/06/2022 46 min
Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa

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Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in SamoaPub date: 2022-05-27Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Examining the effects of capitalism and globalisation on the islands of Samoa at the turn of the 20th century. This conversation pays close attention to the lives of workers – including plantation labourers, ethnographic edutainers, and service workers – revealing how Samoans contested exploitative conditions, while, at the same time, articulating their own forms of Oceanian globality.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis month's episode centers Samoa, including the Pacific islands comprising the present-day independent country of Samoa and American Samoa, examining capitalism, globalization, and coconut colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. In doing so, it pays close attention to the lives of workers, including plantation laborers, ethnographic edutainers, and service workers, revealing how Samoans navigated colonialism and capitalism, contesting exploitative labor conditions, while, at the same time, articulating their own forms of Oceanian globality.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.