{"id":1955,"date":"2022-09-13T01:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T01:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2022-09-13T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T05:40:07","slug":"space-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/13\/space-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Space: Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3267\" height=\"1441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation.png 3267w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation-1024x452.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation-768x339.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation-1536x677.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation-2048x903.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3267px) 100vw, 3267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a mind map I made based on the general research on the topic of plantation.<\/p>\n<p>For the topic of plantation, there are two main aspects that are worth digging into: economic and ecological impact. These two aspects contains more detailed topics, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>slave economy (past and present)<\/li>\n<li>world market influences<\/li>\n<li>local economy influences<\/li>\n<li>biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>habitat<\/li>\n<li>genetically altered crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other topics that drove my attention when I was researching, for instance, why different crops are planted in different countries\/regions; technology applications in modern plantation industry; the history of plantation, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">upsides:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>produce cash crops<\/li>\n<li>make money<\/li>\n<li>grow crops efficiently<\/li>\n<li>create jobs for local people<\/li>\n<li>a key component in the world market<\/li>\n<li>if planted on degraded lands, it can help increase biodiversity and habitat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">downsides:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>low wages for the workers<\/li>\n<li>increase inequality<\/li>\n<li>decrease biodiversity and habitat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">cultural differences:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>different crops:\n<ul>\n<li>China: bamboo<\/li>\n<li>Far East: teak<\/li>\n<li>Australia: eucalyptus<\/li>\n<li>Caribbean: Sugar-cane<\/li>\n<li>America: Christmas trees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>different historical background (colonialism and slavery):\n<ul>\n<li>America<\/li>\n<li>Europ<\/li>\n<li>Afica<\/li>\n<li>Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>worker&#8217;s condition<\/li>\n<li>environmental damage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">norms:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>forest plantation management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>experimental making:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1973\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation1.png 720w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/plantation1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a mind map I made based on the general research on the topic of plantation. For the topic of plantation, there are two main aspects that are worth digging into: economic and ecological impact. These two aspects contains more detailed topics, for example: slave economy (past and present) world market influences local economy&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/13\/space-plantation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space: Plantation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}