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On plants and regimes of waste: Reading Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s A visão das plantas in times of systemic collapse
| dc.check.date | 2026-08-20 | en |
| dc.check.info | Access to this article is restricted until 12 months after publication by request of the publisher | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Garrido Castellano, Carlos | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-20T14:38:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-20T14:38:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: This article engages with plants and wasted lives in A visão das plantas [ The Vision of Plants ] to make sense of the role of ‘contained’ and ‘looked after’ nature as a platform for colonial governmentality and postcolonial dispossession within and beyond the Portuguese-speaking world. Examining how ‘cleaned’ and ‘natural’ environments were the condition of possibility of a system of extraction that kept the gendered and racialized bodies of the ‘cleaners’ out of sight, this essay urges for a critical redefinition of coloniality based on plants and interspecies entanglements. It analyses how domestic and physical labour was mobilized and displaced as part of a regime of accumulation that relied on a logistics of waste (including disposable and extractive nature and wasted lives) to materialize a universalist logic of value. Waste and nature, contained unruliness, and suppressed surplus, come together in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s A visão das plantas , the main object of study in this piece. I explore how the journey of Celestino in the novel echoes a kind of redemption that walled natural spaces offer in Françoise Vergès’s apt reconceptualization of more-than-human regimes of waste and value. The attentiveness with which the former man-of-arms looks after the garden space reveals the underside of an anthropocenic pastoral, in which recourse to the land and the flora can be strategically managed to generate a safeguarded postcolonial amnesia. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Resumo: Este artigo analisa o papel das plantas e das vidas gastas em A visão das plantas na articulação de uma discussão crítica sobre o papel da natureza ‘contida’ e ‘cuidada’ enquanto plataforma para a governabilidade colonial e a despossessão pós-colonial em e para além do mundo de língua portuguesa. Abordando como os entornos ‘limpos’ e ‘naturais’ foram a condição de possibilidade de um sistema extrativo que manteve os corpos racializados e com géneros não normativos fora da visão, este ensaio propõe uma redefinição da colonialidade baseada nas plantas e nos entrelaçamentos de múltiplas espécies. Assim, focar-me-ei em examinar como o trabalho doméstico e físico é mobilizado e deslocado enquanto parte de um regime de acumulação organizado à volta da logística do resíduo (incluindo a natureza descartável e as vidas gastas) com o objetivo de materializar uma lógica universalista do valor. Resíduo e natureza, descontrolo e contenção, excedentes suprimidos, juntam-se no romance de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, o principal objeto de estudo do presente artigo. No ensaio, analisar-se-á a viagem de Celestino no romance, que ecoa um tipo de redenção oferecido pela natureza contida. A atenção com que o antigo homem de guerra cuida do espaço do jardim evidencia o lado oculto de uma pastoral antropocénica, onde o uso da terra e da flora podem ser geridos estrategicamente para produzir uma amnesia pós-colonial. | pt |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Garrido Castellano, C. (2025) 'On plants and regimes of waste: Reading Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s A visão das plantas in times of systemic collapse', Portuguese Studies, 41(1), pp.32-47. https://doi.org/10.1353/port.00023 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/port.00023 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 47 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2222-4270 | en |
| dc.identifier.issued | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Portuguese Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 32 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17796 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 41 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Portuguese Studies | en |
| dc.rights | © 2025, Modern Humanities Research Association. | en |
| dc.subject | A visão das plantas | pt |
| dc.subject | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida | pt |
| dc.subject | Plants | en |
| dc.subject | Wasted lives | en |
| dc.subject | Colonial governmentality | en |
| dc.subject | Postcolonial dispossession | en |
| dc.title | On plants and regimes of waste: Reading Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s A visão das plantas in times of systemic collapse | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| dc.type | journal-article | en |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 41 | en |
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