Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance

Abstract

Land has been one of the key sites of social struggle in postslavery societies. Social relations of power, resistance, and oppositional culture building are inscribed into living landscapes of farming, dwelling, and cultivation. Claims to power (both elite and subaltern) are marked out by landscape features such as plazas, roads, pathways, vantage points, and significant trees, all of which proclaim use-rights, ownership, or the sacrality of particular places. Trees in particular have been used to identify, symbolize, demarcate, and sustain various Caribbean places, meanings, and lives. Insofar as “[n]ew meanings and uses of woods and forests have often accompanied patterns of colonial conquest,” such struggles over arboreal landscapes are evident throughout the Caribbean region. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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