Jennifer C Langill
Biographic Data
| ID | 294024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer C Langill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer C |
| FAMILY NAME | Langill |
| SIGNATURE | LANGILL J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5463-8681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Within and beyond the national identity? ‘Post-hill tribe’ Hmong political subjectivities in northern Thailand
Across mainland Southeast Asia, highland ethnic minority groups were divided by the demarcation of international borders. In Thailand, this coincided with rampant nation-building projects that unfolded throughout the 20th Century. These projects were highly focused on a national Thai identity, and clear demarcations of which subjects were within or beyond this 'imagined community'. The so-called ‘hill tribes’ in the country's north were labelled …
Researcher Positionality and Relational Power
Critical development scholars and feminist geographers call for reflexivity on the relationships between researchers and the subjects of their research. This includes questioning the power dynamics that shape knowledge generation, while recognising the partiality of these insights and the subjectivity of knowledge production. To advance these debates, I draw on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, sometimes used to distinguish…
A Feminist Political Ecology of Where Water “Should” and “Should Not” Be
In this era of profound environmental change and destructive environmental hazards, much of the media and academic discussion focuses on where water “should not be”—referring to extreme flood events and their implications for social-ecological systems. Challenging normative framings, in this article I focus on culturally and contextually specific human–environment relations to alternatively consider where water “should be” and “should sometimes b…
The everyday of inundation
It is widely recognised that social differences are (re)produced through environmental hazards, yet feminist foundations remain relatively absent from critical hazards scholarship. In this paper, we seek to deepen understandings of the experience of environmental hazards through a feminist lens of the ‘everyday’. We focus on the Amazon floodplains, where annual flooding is integral to rural livelihoods but where extreme floods can have devastatin…
Queering feminist geography III
Queering feminist geography IV
Towards feminist geographies of livelihoods
In this introduction to the themed section, Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods, we argue that feminist foundations have been sidelined in broader livelihoods frameworks and approaches. We contend that feminist geographies greatly enrich the field of livelihood studies, helping to better understand the role of social difference and intersectionality in pursuing livelihoods. Our discussion also introduces the four papers to the themed sect…
I shouldn’t have to do this alone
Feminist livelihood literature has demonstrated the centrality of gender and other forms of social difference in defining the experiences of making a living. However, to date critical livelihood analysis that goes beyond male-female gendered disaggregation remains quite rare. To address this, I advance a decolonial intersectional approach to demonstrate how livelihoods are produced by the compounding experiences of gender, ethnicity, marital stat…
Feminist livelihood studies
Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field. First, postcolonialism and decoloniality are separate but related frameworks essential for situating feminist approaches to livelihoods. Second, social-relational and…
Gendered effects of migration on social organization and smallholder production in Oubritenga Province, Burkina Faso
Shifting and intensifying migration flows are causing profound changes in household structures, livelihood portfolios, and rural landscapes worldwide. Yet, migration trends, including who migrates within the household, whether migration is permanent or temporary, and the relationship the migrant maintains (or not) with the household, have strong geographic particularities. In certain regions of sub-Saharan African, outmigration dominated by able-…
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards
The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock
Well before COVID‐19, municipal governments in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos were enacting policies that made street vendor livelihoods increasingly challenging. Yet, vending continues to support tens of thousands of urban households in these three countries. Vendors are often rural‐to‐urban migrants lacking the formal education skills necessary to secure ‘modern’ urban employment, and despite ongoing government disapproval, vending provides a relat…
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
What is a bad flood? Local perspectives of extreme floods in the Peruvian Amazon
The co-production of gendered livelihoods and seasonal livelihoods in the floodplains of the Peruvian Amazon
Gender is poorly understood in rural Amazonia. There remains limited understanding of how livelihoods are gendered or how labour is divided within the household. In this paper, I offer a conceptual framework for understanding gendered division of labour and gendered livelihoods in rural Amazonia. I draw on ethnographic data collected in two riverine mestizo villages located on the floodplains of the Ucayali River, Peru. I disaggregate riverine ag…
Distilling Culture into Commodity? The Emergent Homemade Alcohol Trade and Gendered Livelihoods in Upland Northern Vietnam
Ethnic minorities in the uplands of northern Vietnam are experiencing rapid state- and market-induced economic and agrarian transformations. These communities are having to make important livelihood adaptations to adjust, while living at Vietnam’s economic and political margins. We analyse one such market-induced transformation that some upland communities are deciding to engage with, connected to an increasing demand for locally distilled alcoho…
The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos
Reciprocity between student success and community support has emerged as a strong theme in a phenomenological case study that was conducted amongst post‐primary educational migrant students 1 in Laos. Students clearly articulated their dependence upon community support and the ways in which they gave back to their communities in exchange for their continuing education. The descriptions of their experiences were indicative of hierarchical interdep…
The co-production of gendered livelihoods and seasonal livelihoods in the floodplains of the Peruvian Amazon
Gender is poorly understood in rural Amazonia. There remains limited understanding of how livelihoods are gendered or how labour is divided within the household. In this paper, I offer a conceptual framework for understanding gendered division of labour and gendered livelihoods in rural Amazonia. I draw on ethnographic data collected in two riverine mestizo villages located on the floodplains of the Ucayali River, Peru. I disaggregate riverine ag…
Distilling Culture into Commodity? The Emergent Homemade Alcohol Trade and Gendered Livelihoods in Upland Northern Vietnam
Ethnic minorities in the uplands of northern Vietnam are experiencing rapid state- and market-induced economic and agrarian transformations. These communities are having to make important livelihood adaptations to adjust, while living at Vietnam’s economic and political margins. We analyse one such market-induced transformation that some upland communities are deciding to engage with, connected to an increasing demand for locally distilled alcoho…
Towards feminist geographies of livelihoods
In this introduction to the themed section, Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods, we argue that feminist foundations have been sidelined in broader livelihoods frameworks and approaches. We contend that feminist geographies greatly enrich the field of livelihood studies, helping to better understand the role of social difference and intersectionality in pursuing livelihoods. Our discussion also introduces the four papers to the themed sect…
I shouldn’t have to do this alone
Feminist livelihood literature has demonstrated the centrality of gender and other forms of social difference in defining the experiences of making a living. However, to date critical livelihood analysis that goes beyond male-female gendered disaggregation remains quite rare. To address this, I advance a decolonial intersectional approach to demonstrate how livelihoods are produced by the compounding experiences of gender, ethnicity, marital stat…
What is a bad flood? Local perspectives of extreme floods in the Peruvian Amazon
Gendered effects of migration on social organization and smallholder production in Oubritenga Province, Burkina Faso
Shifting and intensifying migration flows are causing profound changes in household structures, livelihood portfolios, and rural landscapes worldwide. Yet, migration trends, including who migrates within the household, whether migration is permanent or temporary, and the relationship the migrant maintains (or not) with the household, have strong geographic particularities. In certain regions of sub-Saharan African, outmigration dominated by able-…
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
Feminist livelihood studies
Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field. First, postcolonialism and decoloniality are separate but related frameworks essential for situating feminist approaches to livelihoods. Second, social-relational and…
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards
The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos
Reciprocity between student success and community support has emerged as a strong theme in a phenomenological case study that was conducted amongst post‐primary educational migrant students 1 in Laos. Students clearly articulated their dependence upon community support and the ways in which they gave back to their communities in exchange for their continuing education. The descriptions of their experiences were indicative of hierarchical interdep…
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
What is a bad flood? Local perspectives of extreme floods in the Peruvian Amazon
The co-production of gendered livelihoods and seasonal livelihoods in the floodplains of the Peruvian Amazon
Gender is poorly understood in rural Amazonia. There remains limited understanding of how livelihoods are gendered or how labour is divided within the household. In this paper, I offer a conceptual framework for understanding gendered division of labour and gendered livelihoods in rural Amazonia. I draw on ethnographic data collected in two riverine mestizo villages located on the floodplains of the Ucayali River, Peru. I disaggregate riverine ag…
Distilling Culture into Commodity? The Emergent Homemade Alcohol Trade and Gendered Livelihoods in Upland Northern Vietnam
Ethnic minorities in the uplands of northern Vietnam are experiencing rapid state- and market-induced economic and agrarian transformations. These communities are having to make important livelihood adaptations to adjust, while living at Vietnam’s economic and political margins. We analyse one such market-induced transformation that some upland communities are deciding to engage with, connected to an increasing demand for locally distilled alcoho…
The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock
Well before COVID‐19, municipal governments in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos were enacting policies that made street vendor livelihoods increasingly challenging. Yet, vending continues to support tens of thousands of urban households in these three countries. Vendors are often rural‐to‐urban migrants lacking the formal education skills necessary to secure ‘modern’ urban employment, and despite ongoing government disapproval, vending provides a relat…
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards
Gendered effects of migration on social organization and smallholder production in Oubritenga Province, Burkina Faso
Shifting and intensifying migration flows are causing profound changes in household structures, livelihood portfolios, and rural landscapes worldwide. Yet, migration trends, including who migrates within the household, whether migration is permanent or temporary, and the relationship the migrant maintains (or not) with the household, have strong geographic particularities. In certain regions of sub-Saharan African, outmigration dominated by able-…
A Feminist Political Ecology of Where Water “Should” and “Should Not” Be
In this era of profound environmental change and destructive environmental hazards, much of the media and academic discussion focuses on where water “should not be”—referring to extreme flood events and their implications for social-ecological systems. Challenging normative framings, in this article I focus on culturally and contextually specific human–environment relations to alternatively consider where water “should be” and “should sometimes b…
The everyday of inundation
It is widely recognised that social differences are (re)produced through environmental hazards, yet feminist foundations remain relatively absent from critical hazards scholarship. In this paper, we seek to deepen understandings of the experience of environmental hazards through a feminist lens of the ‘everyday’. We focus on the Amazon floodplains, where annual flooding is integral to rural livelihoods but where extreme floods can have devastatin…
Queering feminist geography III
Queering feminist geography IV
Towards feminist geographies of livelihoods
In this introduction to the themed section, Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods, we argue that feminist foundations have been sidelined in broader livelihoods frameworks and approaches. We contend that feminist geographies greatly enrich the field of livelihood studies, helping to better understand the role of social difference and intersectionality in pursuing livelihoods. Our discussion also introduces the four papers to the themed sect…
I shouldn’t have to do this alone
Feminist livelihood literature has demonstrated the centrality of gender and other forms of social difference in defining the experiences of making a living. However, to date critical livelihood analysis that goes beyond male-female gendered disaggregation remains quite rare. To address this, I advance a decolonial intersectional approach to demonstrate how livelihoods are produced by the compounding experiences of gender, ethnicity, marital stat…
Feminist livelihood studies
Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field. First, postcolonialism and decoloniality are separate but related frameworks essential for situating feminist approaches to livelihoods. Second, social-relational and…
Within and beyond the national identity? ‘Post-hill tribe’ Hmong political subjectivities in northern Thailand
Across mainland Southeast Asia, highland ethnic minority groups were divided by the demarcation of international borders. In Thailand, this coincided with rampant nation-building projects that unfolded throughout the 20th Century. These projects were highly focused on a national Thai identity, and clear demarcations of which subjects were within or beyond this 'imagined community'. The so-called ‘hill tribes’ in the country's north were labelled …
Researcher Positionality and Relational Power
Critical development scholars and feminist geographers call for reflexivity on the relationships between researchers and the subjects of their research. This includes questioning the power dynamics that shape knowledge generation, while recognising the partiality of these insights and the subjectivity of knowledge production. To advance these debates, I draw on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, sometimes used to distinguish…
Geography (12 works) · Livelihood (12 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Flood myth (4 works)