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Follow the banana from Philippine plantation to Japanese market in this four-part lecture series that unpacks capitalism's environmental toll. Professor Alyssa Paredes traces pesticides, waste, and fungal pandemics to reveal how commodity supply chains obscure their own destruction.
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Environmental anthropology
Food systems
Global agriculture
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Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism
Burns Park


Follow the banana from Philippine plantation to Japanese market in this four-part lecture series that unpacks capitalism's environmental toll. Professor Alyssa Paredes traces pesticides, waste, and fungal pandemics to reveal how commodity supply chains obscure their own destruction.
Academic lecture series
Environmental anthropology
Food systems
Global agriculture
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đ»join virtually or in-person
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