English
Plantationocene
Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway and others in 2014, from plantation + -cene.
A compound of plantation + -cene
Latin plantātus ‘planted’
Latin plantātiō ‘planting, transplanting’
Middle French plantation
English plantation
The story
Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway and others in 2014, from plantation + -cene.
Today it means
name The current geological epoch, understood as having been created by the effects of large-scale monocropping.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Plantationocene