Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin
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Rural precarity : relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin. / Hougaard, Inge-Merete.
In: Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 50, No. 6, 2023, p. 2437-2456.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Rural precarity
T2 - relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin
AU - Hougaard, Inge-Merete
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Colombia
KW - community
KW - patronage relations
KW - precarity
KW - recognition
KW - Rural transformation
U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2022.2101097
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2022.2101097
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38013880
AN - SCOPUS:85136501535
VL - 50
SP - 2437
EP - 2456
JO - The Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - The Journal of Peasant Studies
SN - 0306-6150
IS - 6
ER -
ID: 318430939