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“Force Majeure: The See-Through Plantation”: U-M Anthropology Department Roy A. Rappaport Lecture
U-M anthropology professor Alyssa Paredes discusses how Philippine banana plantation owners elude responsibility for the damage they do to the environment and local communities. Fourth in Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism, a series of 4 monthly lectures on the existential crises that hang over the banana-growing regions of the Southern Philippines. 3–4:30 p.m., 411 West Hall, 1085 South University. Free. (734) 764–7274.
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