CASAS’ members, Sinem Kavak & Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy have published this article in Agriculture and Human Values. Abstract: This paper examines seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey, focusing on the intersection of relations of production and social reproduction under rapidly shifting land and labour regimes. The workers are predominantly Kurds and Arabs of Turkey and…
Tag: social reproduction
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions
Mnqobi Ngubane, CASAS’ member, has published an article in the Review of African Political Economy. Abstract: This article explores social relations of production and reproduction on redistributed farmland by examining capital–wage relations and social reproduction impacts of land redistribution induced small- and medium-scale capitalist farming on fragmented classes of gendered labour. Such diverse, historically determined,…
The Social Reproductive Roots of Agrarian Contention: Gendered Labor amid Peasant Struggles in Tunisia
New publication alert! Dhouha Djerbi, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in Antipode. Abstract: This paper revisits the Tunisian 2010–2011 uprising and its ensuing decade of agrarian contention as a crisis of social reproduction stemming from the combined effects of depletion and dispossession. It traces the lineages of the grievances that continue to animate…