C Keegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 53543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Keegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Keegan |
| SIGNATURE | KEEGAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8227-5555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state
In this paper, I draw on feminist narrative analysis to reconsider the exceptional character of agriculture under the law and its embodied consequences for contemporary agricultural guestworkers in Georgia, USA. Through engaged participant observation alongside farmworker advocates and archival research of legal texts, I consider the interplay between the law and everyday narratives in (re)constructing the racialized agricultural labor system. I …
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the Covid‐19 pandemic in the US South
As farmworkers were reframed as “essential” workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic, US growers demanded unfettered access to foreign farm labor. After initially announcing a freeze on all immigration processing, the Trump administration bowed to farmers' demands, granting a single exception for agricultural guestworkers under the H‐2A visa program. Through a focus on H‐2A farmworkers in Georgia, this paper highlights how the pandemic exacerbated fa…
Reconsidering the "Nature" of Agriculture: Racial Capitalism, H-2A Labor, and Political Ecologies of Extreme Heat in Georgia
This article synthesizes literatures on political ecology and racial capitalism to interrogate the historical development and contemporary conditions of extreme heat and farm labor in Georgia. Challenging the extent to which agriculture is considered “naturally” exceptional as an industry, I argue that ecological volatility has been discursively deployed to justify Georgia’s racialized, devalued agricultural labor regime. Drawing on Du Bois’s con…
Working dignity into urban geography
This commentary responds to Grossman and Trubina's (2022) article, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation’. I consider their argument and framework for integrating a formal conceptualization of dignity into urban geography research, including the challenges they face in nailing down this slippery, abstract concept, and the many contributions their application presents to the field. In particular, I focus on the relationship between …
The Quality of Life in the Volunteer Army
Journal Article The Quality of Life in the Volunteer Army Get access Robert F. Holz, Robert F. Holz U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Segal, David R. Segal U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carol Keegan Carol Keegan U.S. Army R…
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state
In this paper, I draw on feminist narrative analysis to reconsider the exceptional character of agriculture under the law and its embodied consequences for contemporary agricultural guestworkers in Georgia, USA. Through engaged participant observation alongside farmworker advocates and archival research of legal texts, I consider the interplay between the law and everyday narratives in (re)constructing the racialized agricultural labor system. I …
Reconsidering the "Nature" of Agriculture: Racial Capitalism, H-2A Labor, and Political Ecologies of Extreme Heat in Georgia
This article synthesizes literatures on political ecology and racial capitalism to interrogate the historical development and contemporary conditions of extreme heat and farm labor in Georgia. Challenging the extent to which agriculture is considered “naturally” exceptional as an industry, I argue that ecological volatility has been discursively deployed to justify Georgia’s racialized, devalued agricultural labor regime. Drawing on Du Bois’s con…
Working dignity into urban geography
This commentary responds to Grossman and Trubina's (2022) article, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation’. I consider their argument and framework for integrating a formal conceptualization of dignity into urban geography research, including the challenges they face in nailing down this slippery, abstract concept, and the many contributions their application presents to the field. In particular, I focus on the relationship between …
The Quality of Life in the Volunteer Army
Journal Article The Quality of Life in the Volunteer Army Get access Robert F. Holz, Robert F. Holz U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Segal, David R. Segal U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carol Keegan Carol Keegan U.S. Army R…
Working dignity into urban geography
This commentary responds to Grossman and Trubina's (2022) article, ‘Dignity in Urban Geography: Starting a Conversation’. I consider their argument and framework for integrating a formal conceptualization of dignity into urban geography research, including the challenges they face in nailing down this slippery, abstract concept, and the many contributions their application presents to the field. In particular, I focus on the relationship between …
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the Covid‐19 pandemic in the US South
As farmworkers were reframed as “essential” workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic, US growers demanded unfettered access to foreign farm labor. After initially announcing a freeze on all immigration processing, the Trump administration bowed to farmers' demands, granting a single exception for agricultural guestworkers under the H‐2A visa program. Through a focus on H‐2A farmworkers in Georgia, this paper highlights how the pandemic exacerbated fa…
Reconsidering the "Nature" of Agriculture: Racial Capitalism, H-2A Labor, and Political Ecologies of Extreme Heat in Georgia
This article synthesizes literatures on political ecology and racial capitalism to interrogate the historical development and contemporary conditions of extreme heat and farm labor in Georgia. Challenging the extent to which agriculture is considered “naturally” exceptional as an industry, I argue that ecological volatility has been discursively deployed to justify Georgia’s racialized, devalued agricultural labor regime. Drawing on Du Bois’s con…
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state
In this paper, I draw on feminist narrative analysis to reconsider the exceptional character of agriculture under the law and its embodied consequences for contemporary agricultural guestworkers in Georgia, USA. Through engaged participant observation alongside farmworker advocates and archival research of legal texts, I consider the interplay between the law and everyday narratives in (re)constructing the racialized agricultural labor system. I …
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Law (2 works)