Ambivalences of collective farming
Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12960170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Leder (0000-0003-1499-6606, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, corresponding author), Fraser Sugden (0000-0002-7559-4486, University of Birmingham), Manita Raut (International Water Management Institute), Dhananjay Ray (Development Initiatives), Panchali Saikia (0000-0002-6268-9291, Stockholm International Water Institute) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-105 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18352/ijc.917 |
| OpenAlex | W2947543046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 43 |
New models of collective farming have been suggested as potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transform peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we ask: to what extent can collective farming open up possibilities of empowerment for marginalized groups in smallholder agriculture? We examine the establishment of 18 farmer collectives by a research project in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, a region characterised by fragmented and small landholdings and a high rate of marginalised and landless farmers. We analyze ambivalances of collective farming practices with regard to (1) social relations across scales, (2) intersectionality and (3) emotional attachment. Our results in Saptari/ Eastern Terai in Nepal, Madhubani/Bihar, and Cooch Behar/West Bengal in India demonstrate how intra-household, group and community relations and emotional attachments to the family and neighbors mediate the redistribution of labor, land and capital. We find that gendered relations, intersected by class, age, ethnicity and caste, are reproduced in collective action and access to land and water, and argue that a critical feminist perspective can support a more reflective and relational understanding of collective farming processes. Our analysis demonstrates that feminist political ecology can compliment commons studies by providing meaningful insights on ambivalences around approaches such as collective farming
Agriculture · Caste · Collective action · Commons · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Geography · Intersectionality · Peasant · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Gender Studies
Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal
Introduction
Rural Women’s Response to Climate Change
Technology is not enough
Modeling the behavioural intentions of farmers towards active participation in Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs)
Window dressing inequalities and constructing women farmers as problematic—gender in Rwanda’s agriculture policy
Beyond the ‘Feminization of Agriculture’
Political ecology 1
Rural out-migration and water governance
Translocal resource governance, social relations and aspirations
Understanding agricultural transitions and sustainability
Reimagining climate-informed development
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict
The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri-Alternatives
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal
Conceptualising environmental collective action
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Feminist Political Ecology
Governing the Commons
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
Analyzing collective action
Finding common ground between theories of collective action
Furthering critical institutionalism
Embracing conceptual diversity to integrate power and institutional analysis
Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal
Gender and Caste Relations Amidst a Changing Political Situation in Nepal
Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
Beyond Design Principles
Gendered participation in water management
Gender and property rights in the commons
Gender and social capital
Water Rich, Resource Poor
What Affects Organization and Collective Action for Managing Resources? Evidence from Canal Irrigation Systems in India
Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India
Using Subjectivity and Emotion to Reconsider Participatory Natural Resource Management
The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action
Augmenting the IAD framework to reveal power in collaborative governance – An illustrative application to resource industry dominated processes
Analysing decentralised natural resource governance
Empowerment and Efficiency
Suffering for water, suffering from water
Traditional” women, “modern” water
Bounding difference
The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects
Bargaining'' and Gender Relations
Introducing new feminist political ecologies
Irrigation, Gender, and Social Geographies of the Changing Waterscapes of Southeastern Anatolia
Questioning commoning
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses
The Nature of Gender
Fishing for Nature
The Symbolic Making of a Common Property Resource
Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India
Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty, food security and democratic choice
A mode of production flux
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |