Description
Social Reproduction Approaches in the study of political economy have crucially shaped our understanding of the co-constitutive relationships between everyday gender inequality, and macroeconomic logics of accumulation. Yet, theorisations of the gendered dynamics of social reproduction along Global South resource frontiers that are increasingly under the sway of transnational corporate investments and speculation, remain limited in this canon. This paper brings into dialogue feminist political economy and feminist critical agrarian studies to explore the gendered politics of agrarian transition in the context of large-scale land acquisitions in two emerging Asian economies- Cambodia and India. I specifically investigate the gendered interconnections between rising commercial interests in land and agrarian commodities, and concomitant impacts on the gendered work of food production and provisioning. Drawing primarily on evidence from Cambodia and India—generated through fieldwork across multiple locations in both countries— this article illuminates how ongoing agrarian transitions accompanying land and agrarian commercialization are urgent sites for exploring ongoing reconfiguration of gendered social relations in the Global South.
