‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers

Brickell, Katherine; Lawreniuk, Sabina; Chhom, Theavy; Mony, Reach; So, Hengvotey; McCarthy, Lauren

doi:10.1080/14649365.2022.2055778

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Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia (2022)
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As neoliberalism lurches through its zombie phase – intellectually dead but dominant – critical scholars chart the global ascendancy of authoritarian variants of neoliberalism. Distinguished, in particular, by the rise of constitutional and legal str... Read More about Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia.

Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category (2022)
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The rural sphere has suffered from underrepresentation in recent years in part due to growing interest in the urban. A perhaps equally important aspect of the decline has been the troubling of the spatial boundaries that define the rural and urban am... Read More about Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category.

Reduced ‘fates of the body’ and ‘production of value for others’ in the global garment industry: Thinking with Berlant on eating and hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, suspended and laid off garment workers struggled on severely reduced incomes to meet the cost of food for themselves and their families. It is in this context of ‘double crisis’ that our commentary focuses on the diminis... Read More about Reduced ‘fates of the body’ and ‘production of value for others’ in the global garment industry: Thinking with Berlant on eating and hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers (2022)
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Drawing on 203 quantitative surveys with women workers in Cambodia and a further set of semi-structured interviews with 60 original participants, this paper is one of the very first to present empirically grounded research from garment workers on the... Read More about ‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers.