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Climate-linked heat inequality in the global southern workforce: Cambodian workers’ economic and health vulnerability to high core temperatures in five occupational sectors (2025)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., Mishra, P., Cole, J., Lawreniuk, S., & Long, L. V. (2025). Climate-linked heat inequality in the global southern workforce: Cambodian workers’ economic and health vulnerability to high core temperatures in five occupational sectors. Climate and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2025.2474026

Under climate change, the risk of heatwaves is increasing worldwide. However, the health risks resulting from heatwaves are uneven. Relatively socially disadvantaged people are disproportionately affected by temperature extremes. This paper explores... Read More about Climate-linked heat inequality in the global southern workforce: Cambodian workers’ economic and health vulnerability to high core temperatures in five occupational sectors.

Doing feminist longitudinal research across the COVID-19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia (2023)
Journal Article
Brickell, K., Chhom, T., Lawreniuk, S., McCarthy, L., Mony, R., & So, H. (2024). Doing feminist longitudinal research across the COVID-19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia. Area, 56(1), Article e12885. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12885

This paper is based on the ReFashion study which used mixed-method longitudinal research to track and amplify the experiences and coping mechanisms of 200 women garment workers in Cambodia as they navigated the financial repercussions of the COVID-19... Read More about Doing feminist longitudinal research across the COVID-19 crisis: Unheard impacts on researchers and garment workers in Cambodia.

Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia (2022)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2023). Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12564

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)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2022). Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(2), 204-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221102937

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)
Journal Article
Brickell, K., & Lawreniuk, S. (2022). 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. Geographical Journal, 188(3), 464-467. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12454

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)
Journal Article
Brickell, K., Lawreniuk, S., Chhom, T., Mony, R., So, H., & McCarthy, L. (2023). ‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers. Social and Cultural Geography, 24(3-4), 600-619. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055778

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.

Challenging the financial inclusion-decent work nexus: evidence from Cambodia’s over-indebted internal migrants (2021)
Journal Article
Natarajan, N., Brickell, K., Guermond, V., Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2021). Challenging the financial inclusion-decent work nexus: evidence from Cambodia’s over-indebted internal migrants. Global Public Policy and Governance, 1(3), 361-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-021-00026-7

In this paper, we question the promotion of financial inclusion, and microfinance specifically, as a means to achieve ‘Decent Work’ (DW) under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) programme. Drawing upon original research findings from two ty... Read More about Challenging the financial inclusion-decent work nexus: evidence from Cambodia’s over-indebted internal migrants.

'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia (2021)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2021). 'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(4), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211025536

Postwar property reforms in transitional Cambodia plunged the country into new conflict: a war of land. Under the guise of 'beautification', 11% of the capital's residents have been displaced in under two decades in a wave of violent gentrification,... Read More about 'A war of houses and a war of land': Gentrification, post-politics, and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia.

Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene (2021)
Book Chapter
LAWRENIUK, S. (2021). Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene. In N. Natarajan, & L. Parsons (Eds.), Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance. Routledge

Long viewed as a global issue, scholars are increasingly aware of the inequalities inherent in the manifestation of climate change. Among the hardest hit are workers in the South, facing a unique double jeopardy as contemporary climate precarity erod... Read More about Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene.

Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography (2020)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2020). Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934927

The economic fallout from COVID-19 has precipitated a crisis in global supply chains. The lockdown of consumers worldwide has triggered a fall in demand that has so far led to the dismissal of up to one-third of Cambodia’s garment sector workforce. T... Read More about Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography.

Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia (2019)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S. (2020). Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(4), 1174-1191. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1670040

Cambodia’s recent crackdown on freedoms of expression, association, and assembly coincides with the wider geopolitical ascent of illiberal democracy. Scholarly and public discourse suggests that we are now witnessing a global authoritarian turn, poss... Read More about Intensifying Political Geographies of Authoritarianism: Toward an Anti-geopolitics of Garment Worker Struggles in Neoliberal Cambodia.

For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia (2018)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2018). For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia. Geoforum, 92, 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.020

This paper uses the context of Cambodia’s 2013/14 and 2015 minimum wage campaigns to demonstrate the translocally rural-urban nature of worker agency and activism within global production networks. In doing so, it first highlights the gendered and hi... Read More about For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia.

After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus (2017)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2017). After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 38(3), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12199

This paper uses the exodus of Cambodian migrant workers from Thailand in June 2014 as a focal point around which to explore Cambodian migrant attitudes towards the systems of documentation and brokerage that influence their movement. From the perspec... Read More about After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus.

The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system (2016)
Book Chapter
Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system. In K. Brickell, & S. Springer (Eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia. Routledge

The “miracle” (World Bank 2009) of Cambodia’s recent development has been driven by the movement of labor. Beginning in the 1990s, when the first garment factories opened their doors, a trickle of migrant workers to Phnom Penh’s nascent export indust... Read More about The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system.

A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders (2016)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2017). A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders. Mobilities, 12(5), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1176775

This paper uses the concept of viscosity to highlight how structural impediments to movement affect not only populations and individuals characterised by low (or no) mobility but also highly mobile groups. Using the ‘cyclo’ riding paratransit workers... Read More about A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders.

The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh (2015)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh. Journal of Development Studies, 52(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1056787

This paper concerns the nature of structured begging migration in Phnom Penh, as well as its impact and meaning in sender communities. It interrogates a popular myth known throughout Cambodia concerning the supernatural motivation of ‘rich’ beggars,... Read More about The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh.