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Episode: Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
Pub date: 2022-05-27

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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.

This 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.

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