Rural precarity : relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin
(2023) In Journal of Peasant Studies 50(6). p.2437-2456- Abstract
Across the world, economic interests and state-making interventions have converged in dispossessing rural and urban dwellers. Drawing on literature on rural transformation, precarity, and life after dispossession, this paper explores how lifeworlds are constructed after dispossession. Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-descendant village in agro-industrial Colombia, I analyse five income-generating activities that together point to rural precarity, characterised by uncertain labour relations, fragile conditions of life, ecological dependence, and reconfigured rural relations. While villagers construct their lifeworlds around community, autonomy, and recognition, the constant search for income and reconfigured rural relations... (More)
Across the world, economic interests and state-making interventions have converged in dispossessing rural and urban dwellers. Drawing on literature on rural transformation, precarity, and life after dispossession, this paper explores how lifeworlds are constructed after dispossession. Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-descendant village in agro-industrial Colombia, I analyse five income-generating activities that together point to rural precarity, characterised by uncertain labour relations, fragile conditions of life, ecological dependence, and reconfigured rural relations. While villagers construct their lifeworlds around community, autonomy, and recognition, the constant search for income and reconfigured rural relations uphold and deepen inequalities in the agro-industrial margin.
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- Hougaard, Inge Merete LU
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- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Colombia, community, patronage relations, precarity, recognition, Rural transformation
- in
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- volume
- 50
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 2437 - 2456
- publisher
- Frank Cass Publishers
- external identifiers
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- pmid:38013880
- scopus:85136501535
- ISSN
- 0306-6150
- DOI
- 10.1080/03066150.2022.2101097
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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