Doi Ra
Biographic Data
| ID | 102741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doi Ra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ra |
| SIGNATURE | RA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7287-1878 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Food sovereignty, capitalism and migrant workers
Migrant workers have long played a central role in the global food system, yet they often remain marginal in food sovereignty discourse and practice. In this paper, we discuss why and how migrant labour is overlooked and explore ways to more effectively integrate migrant workers into food sovereignty frameworks, including debates, discourse, mobilisations, and practices. Increasing numbers of ‘working people’ migrate in search of livelihoods, whi…
Global land rush and local resistance: Political struggles in ‘failed’ land deals
This paper examines two cases of land deals in Kachin State, Myanmar, using a case study approach informed by critical agrarian studies and a landscape perspective. The research draws on household surveys and interviews to analyze an 80,000-hectare corporate-pursued biofuel crop concession and a 58,000 hectare ‘pin prick’ land accumulation for banana plantations. Immersed in the broader political economy of geopolitics, dispossession, and armed c…
Death of agrarian societies by a thousand cuts: Non-corporate ‘pin prick’ and medium-scale land grabs
In terms of scale, the land rush has unleashed the interlinked categories: corporate large-scale, non-corporate pin prick and medium-scale land grabs. For the local population, the latter two types are ubiquitous parts of the land rush, yet these tend to be invisible to media and academic researchers. These are land ‘control grabbing’ done in a variety of ways: legal and illegal, openly or by stealth, with or without use of extra-economic coercio…
Resistance to extractivism: Pin-prick land grabs and ‘failed’ corporate land deals
Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. We argue that this diversity is influenced by the social structures and institutions upon which land grabs unfold. These conditions also shape how land grabs take shape across time and space. We have identified two broad types of land grabs in terms of status: operational corporate and failed corporate land deals;…
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China
While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…
Peasants and migrant workers in the farms and the mines: Synergies and Contradictions
This paper builds on a reflection by Nicholson, a founding member of La Via Campesina, on the contradictions faced by peasant households worldwide—specifically, the increasing necessity to combine wage work with small-scale farming and the use of migrant labour. For peasant households, contradiction exists not only in farming but also in relation to other sectors where they themselves engage in wage work, such as in the agribusiness, service sect…
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: A Perspective From the Sugarcane Sector
In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
Nothing about us, without us: Reflections on the challenges of building Land in Our Hands, a national land network in Myanmar/Burma
The transition from military dictatorship to an electoral regime has opened limited political spaces for social activism in Myanmar. Some have called the unfolding situation a 'transition to democracy'. But this is far from the reality for some, if not most, of Myanmar's 'rural working people'. This paper explores the trajectory of the national land network called Land in Our Hands (LIOH or Doe Myay), which came into formal existence in 2014. Thi…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
Nothing about us, without us: Reflections on the challenges of building Land in Our Hands, a national land network in Myanmar/Burma
The transition from military dictatorship to an electoral regime has opened limited political spaces for social activism in Myanmar. Some have called the unfolding situation a 'transition to democracy'. But this is far from the reality for some, if not most, of Myanmar's 'rural working people'. This paper explores the trajectory of the national land network called Land in Our Hands (LIOH or Doe Myay), which came into formal existence in 2014. Thi…
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China
While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: A Perspective From the Sugarcane Sector
In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…
Peasants and migrant workers in the farms and the mines: Synergies and Contradictions
This paper builds on a reflection by Nicholson, a founding member of La Via Campesina, on the contradictions faced by peasant households worldwide—specifically, the increasing necessity to combine wage work with small-scale farming and the use of migrant labour. For peasant households, contradiction exists not only in farming but also in relation to other sectors where they themselves engage in wage work, such as in the agribusiness, service sect…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
Nothing about us, without us: Reflections on the challenges of building Land in Our Hands, a national land network in Myanmar/Burma
The transition from military dictatorship to an electoral regime has opened limited political spaces for social activism in Myanmar. Some have called the unfolding situation a 'transition to democracy'. But this is far from the reality for some, if not most, of Myanmar's 'rural working people'. This paper explores the trajectory of the national land network called Land in Our Hands (LIOH or Doe Myay), which came into formal existence in 2014. Thi…
Global land rush and local resistance: Political struggles in ‘failed’ land deals
This paper examines two cases of land deals in Kachin State, Myanmar, using a case study approach informed by critical agrarian studies and a landscape perspective. The research draws on household surveys and interviews to analyze an 80,000-hectare corporate-pursued biofuel crop concession and a 58,000 hectare ‘pin prick’ land accumulation for banana plantations. Immersed in the broader political economy of geopolitics, dispossession, and armed c…
Death of agrarian societies by a thousand cuts: Non-corporate ‘pin prick’ and medium-scale land grabs
In terms of scale, the land rush has unleashed the interlinked categories: corporate large-scale, non-corporate pin prick and medium-scale land grabs. For the local population, the latter two types are ubiquitous parts of the land rush, yet these tend to be invisible to media and academic researchers. These are land ‘control grabbing’ done in a variety of ways: legal and illegal, openly or by stealth, with or without use of extra-economic coercio…
Resistance to extractivism: Pin-prick land grabs and ‘failed’ corporate land deals
Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. We argue that this diversity is influenced by the social structures and institutions upon which land grabs unfold. These conditions also shape how land grabs take shape across time and space. We have identified two broad types of land grabs in terms of status: operational corporate and failed corporate land deals;…
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China
While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…
Peasants and migrant workers in the farms and the mines: Synergies and Contradictions
This paper builds on a reflection by Nicholson, a founding member of La Via Campesina, on the contradictions faced by peasant households worldwide—specifically, the increasing necessity to combine wage work with small-scale farming and the use of migrant labour. For peasant households, contradiction exists not only in farming but also in relation to other sectors where they themselves engage in wage work, such as in the agribusiness, service sect…
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: A Perspective From the Sugarcane Sector
In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…
Food sovereignty, capitalism and migrant workers
Migrant workers have long played a central role in the global food system, yet they often remain marginal in food sovereignty discourse and practice. In this paper, we discuss why and how migrant labour is overlooked and explore ways to more effectively integrate migrant workers into food sovereignty frameworks, including debates, discourse, mobilisations, and practices. Increasing numbers of ‘working people’ migrate in search of livelihoods, whi…
Agriculture (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agrarian society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Business (4 works)