https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12652?af=R Abstract

The potato has been critical to plant"?human assemblages both in South America and in Europe. A study of the capacities, or affordances of this plant within diverse political economies highlights its mutability in some circumstances and vulnerability in others. The contrasts are stark. In South America, peasant agriculture took the potato across a large and diverse ecumene allowing its elaboration into many varieties and sustaining extensive state systems that taxed its production. Spanish colonialism repurposed the plant as the calorific basis for concentrations of coerced labour at silver mines. Back in Europe it was initially the resistance of the potato to state violence that encouraged peasants to turn over their fields to a tuberous plant that "concealed" its food underground. But its calorific productivity per acre again saw it repurposed as peasants were converted to proletarians, allowed to subsist on only the smallest plots while working for landlords on larger estates.

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T?? an pr??ta tar ?is a bheith riachtanach i gcluichre??in daonna is planda i Meirice?? Theas agus san Eoraip. Tarraing??onn staid?ar ar achmhainn?? agus dus an phlanda seo, in eacnama??ochta?? polaiti??la ?ags??la, ??ird ar inathraitheacht an phr??ta i gc??sanna ??irithe agus ar a soghontacht i gc??sanna eile. Is g?ar an chodarsnacht idir an d?? ch??s. I Meirice?? Theas, scaip talamha??ocht tuath??nach an pr??ta thar ecumene fairsing ilghn?itheach agus d'fh??s an ioma?? saghasanna ?ags??la pr??ta d?? r?ir, comh maith le c??ras st??it fairsing a ghearr c??in ar a shaothr??. Thug an coile??nachas Sp??inneach ??s??id ??r don phlanda mar bhia chalrach d'oibrithe comh?ignithe 'sna mianaigh airgid. San Eoraip thug an pr??ta deis do lucht na tuaithe cur in aghaidh for?igean an st??it mar go raibh maitheas an phlanda i bhfolach faoi thalamh. Ach de bharr fi??ntais chalrach in aghaidh an acra an phlanda, cuireadh chun ??s??id nua ar??s ? agus lucht tuaithe tiontaithe ina pr??lait??ireacht nach raibh cead acu ach beart tal??n b??deach agus iad ag obair ar thailte m??ra an tiarna tal??n.

» Author: 2> <p>This paper contributes to the accounts of territorial stigmatisation by examining the state role in it in the case of Turkey, a country that suffers from growing state power. The existing debates are mainly restricted to its function as an

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