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Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization (2023)

Jordan Howell (Author)

Environmental History
Volume: 28
Issue: 1
Pages: 133-159
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1086/722575

URI: https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.services.lib.mtu.edu/doi/10.1086/722575

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Environmental justice Bauxite Mines and Mining Capitalism Peasants 20th century Jamaica (Caribbean)

In the 1940s and 1950s, North American corporations made colonial Jamaica the world’s largest producer of bauxite, the raw material required to smelt aluminum. This industrial transformation was part of a transimperial project, as British and American diplomats worked with industrialists to reconstruct the world capitalist economy after the Second World War. Although much has been written about the history of bauxite in Jamaica, scholars have paid little attention to the conflicts between peasants and prospectors that underpinned the industry’s rise and expansion. As this article argues, corporate prospecting drove a transformation in property that enabled firms to invest in mining and, as a result, dispossess tens of thousands of Jamaicans of their land. But the expansion of capitalism at the end of empire did not just mark the Jamaican countryside. The history of environmental and social change was decided there, through conflicts between peasants and prospectors over land and property.

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