Helena Pérez Niño
Biographic Data
| ID | 81142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Pérez Niño |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena Pérez |
| FAMILY NAME | Niño |
| SIGNATURE | NIÑO H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9961-2717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making sense of securitised water bodies and borders through the lens of Glissant’s archipelagic thinking
This paper explores the conceptual and methodological potential of Édouard Glissant’s ‘archipelagic thinking’ for studying securitized water bodies and borders. Its aim is to reimagine their social and political relations from an aquatic, relational perspective—in sites shaped by histories of conflict and contemporary processes of militarization, environmental scrutiny, and border enforcement. We mobilise archipelagic thinking to deconstruct and …
From Theory to the Field and Back Again
Fieldwork is the cornerstone of empirical research in agrarian studies. Discussion about methodological options has, however, not kept up with the innovative conceptual developments taking place within the discipline. This is particularly evident in the study of social differentiation, a key concern in agrarian scholarship. Through a review of the empirical literature on agrarian social differentiation in journal articles using field‐based resear…
Rethinking exploitation and control in migrant labour regimes
The expansion of oil palm farming in Southeast Asia has been premised on the mobilisation of both internal and transborder migrant labour. This paper examines labour relations on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia, with a focus on the underexplored case of undocumented Filipino migrant workers from Palawan. Drawing on field-based research, we analyse the evolution of a migrant labour regime in light of debates on labour exploitation. We fi…
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa - An Introduction
For more than a century, tobacco has been a key source of export revenues for both Zimbabwe and Malawi, and, in the past 30 years, production has expanded to parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The crop continues to be the main livelihood option for millions of citizens in southern Africa, an important source of income and rural employment and one of the few industries in which the region commands a large share of the global market. Combine…
Agrarian class relations in Rwanda
This paper explores the organization of production in Rwanda's main coffee producing zone. Most rural households in the region have limited access to land and stable employment. Yet, while differences in property and employment appear small from afar, this paper shows why they are consequential: even when marginal, these differences interact with time and market pressures (e.g. relative dependence on household food production or need for cash) th…
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
Twenty‐five years of Living Under Contract
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming an…
Introduction
Covid‐19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores preliminary studies of how Covid‐19 has affected agrarian social formations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the farmers, petty commodity producers, labourers and agribusinesses who populate them. It co…
Nine Labour Migration
Labour Migration
Labour Migration
Migrant workers into contract farmers
As contract farming gains ground as a form of agricultural production in Southern Africa, there is growing interest in its effects on patterns of investment and production as well as in its potential to provide small farmers with access to export markets. However, the relation between contract farming and the region's long history of labour migration has largely escaped analysts and scholars working on Southern Africa. This article traces the cha…
Class dynamics in contract farming
This paper examines the class relations emerging in a contract farming scheme in Mozambique. Debates in the literature about contract farming characterise this market arrangement as leading to farmers losing control over production at the hands of capital. By discussing both the drivers and impacts of changes in the division of property and labour, this paper reveals a complex class structure in which the pressure of merchant capital on farmers i…
Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola
Sharing similar colonial and postindependence civil war experiences, Mozambique's and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil-rentier Angola. This article questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and revisits Angola's trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to ruling parties and postwar political economy transitions, we discuss differences and similar…
Class dynamics in contract farming
This paper examines the class relations emerging in a contract farming scheme in Mozambique. Debates in the literature about contract farming characterise this market arrangement as leading to farmers losing control over production at the hands of capital. By discussing both the drivers and impacts of changes in the division of property and labour, this paper reveals a complex class structure in which the pressure of merchant capital on farmers i…
Agrarian class relations in Rwanda
This paper explores the organization of production in Rwanda's main coffee producing zone. Most rural households in the region have limited access to land and stable employment. Yet, while differences in property and employment appear small from afar, this paper shows why they are consequential: even when marginal, these differences interact with time and market pressures (e.g. relative dependence on household food production or need for cash) th…
Migrant workers into contract farmers
As contract farming gains ground as a form of agricultural production in Southern Africa, there is growing interest in its effects on patterns of investment and production as well as in its potential to provide small farmers with access to export markets. However, the relation between contract farming and the region's long history of labour migration has largely escaped analysts and scholars working on Southern Africa. This article traces the cha…
Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola
Sharing similar colonial and postindependence civil war experiences, Mozambique's and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil-rentier Angola. This article questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and revisits Angola's trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to ruling parties and postwar political economy transitions, we discuss differences and similar…
Rethinking exploitation and control in migrant labour regimes
The expansion of oil palm farming in Southeast Asia has been premised on the mobilisation of both internal and transborder migrant labour. This paper examines labour relations on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia, with a focus on the underexplored case of undocumented Filipino migrant workers from Palawan. Drawing on field-based research, we analyse the evolution of a migrant labour regime in light of debates on labour exploitation. We fi…
Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola
Sharing similar colonial and postindependence civil war experiences, Mozambique's and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil-rentier Angola. This article questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and revisits Angola's trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to ruling parties and postwar political economy transitions, we discuss differences and similar…
Class dynamics in contract farming
This paper examines the class relations emerging in a contract farming scheme in Mozambique. Debates in the literature about contract farming characterise this market arrangement as leading to farmers losing control over production at the hands of capital. By discussing both the drivers and impacts of changes in the division of property and labour, this paper reveals a complex class structure in which the pressure of merchant capital on farmers i…
Migrant workers into contract farmers
As contract farming gains ground as a form of agricultural production in Southern Africa, there is growing interest in its effects on patterns of investment and production as well as in its potential to provide small farmers with access to export markets. However, the relation between contract farming and the region's long history of labour migration has largely escaped analysts and scholars working on Southern Africa. This article traces the cha…
Nine Labour Migration
Labour Migration
Labour Migration
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
Twenty‐five years of Living Under Contract
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming an…
Introduction
Covid‐19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores preliminary studies of how Covid‐19 has affected agrarian social formations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the farmers, petty commodity producers, labourers and agribusinesses who populate them. It co…
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa - An Introduction
For more than a century, tobacco has been a key source of export revenues for both Zimbabwe and Malawi, and, in the past 30 years, production has expanded to parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The crop continues to be the main livelihood option for millions of citizens in southern Africa, an important source of income and rural employment and one of the few industries in which the region commands a large share of the global market. Combine…
Agrarian class relations in Rwanda
This paper explores the organization of production in Rwanda's main coffee producing zone. Most rural households in the region have limited access to land and stable employment. Yet, while differences in property and employment appear small from afar, this paper shows why they are consequential: even when marginal, these differences interact with time and market pressures (e.g. relative dependence on household food production or need for cash) th…
Rethinking exploitation and control in migrant labour regimes
The expansion of oil palm farming in Southeast Asia has been premised on the mobilisation of both internal and transborder migrant labour. This paper examines labour relations on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia, with a focus on the underexplored case of undocumented Filipino migrant workers from Palawan. Drawing on field-based research, we analyse the evolution of a migrant labour regime in light of debates on labour exploitation. We fi…
Making sense of securitised water bodies and borders through the lens of Glissant’s archipelagic thinking
This paper explores the conceptual and methodological potential of Édouard Glissant’s ‘archipelagic thinking’ for studying securitized water bodies and borders. Its aim is to reimagine their social and political relations from an aquatic, relational perspective—in sites shaped by histories of conflict and contemporary processes of militarization, environmental scrutiny, and border enforcement. We mobilise archipelagic thinking to deconstruct and …
From Theory to the Field and Back Again
Fieldwork is the cornerstone of empirical research in agrarian studies. Discussion about methodological options has, however, not kept up with the innovative conceptual developments taking place within the discipline. This is particularly evident in the study of social differentiation, a key concern in agrarian scholarship. Through a review of the empirical literature on agrarian social differentiation in journal articles using field‐based resear…
Agriculture (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Agrarian society (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Contract farming (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works)