@article{07b91254abde4785af2cba57ca359242,
title = "Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens",
abstract = "This article explores the trajectory of three rural, precarious Cambodian women as they deploy land as a means of undertaking survival work in Cambodia. Using a gendered lens vis-{\`a}-vis the concept of autonomy, this article rethinks distress sales of land and collateralized land for microfinance borrowing as forms of everyday autonomy. By highlighting women's central role in undertaking social reproductive labour to reproduce the rural household, these acts of distress land sale and debt-taking are understood as forms of {\textquoteleft}survival work{\textquoteright}, acts that ensure the day-to-day survival of the household and form the basis for broader projects of autonomy. Although we remain ambivalent about the long-term prospects for resistance through credit-taking in particular, we ultimately highlight the need for greater attention to variegated oppositional agency in the path to autonomy to understand the gendered labour of everyday survival in rural life.",
keywords = "Cambodia, debt, gender, land, rural, social reproduction",
author = "Nithya Natarajan and Katherine Brickell",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the many respondents who were part of our research and who enabled us to develop our analysis in this article and to the Cambodian research assistants who were central to our work. We also thank Kees Jansen and Leandro Vergara-Camus for their insightful comments, as well as fellow Special Issue authors who all provided excellent feedback at a workshop organized in 2019. The research in this study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the former UK Department for International Development (ref: ES/R00238X/1). Katherine Brickell would like to express her gratitude to the Leverhulme Trust for her Philip Leverhulme Prize (PLP-2016-127), which supported her during the writing of this article. Funding Information: We are grateful to the many respondents who were part of our research and who enabled us to develop our analysis in this article and to the Cambodian research assistants who were central to our work. We also thank Kees Jansen and Leandro Vergara‐Camus for their insightful comments, as well as fellow Special Issue authors who all provided excellent feedback at a workshop organized in 2019. The research in this study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the former UK Department for International Development (ref: ES/R00238X/1). Katherine Brickell would like to express her gratitude to the Leverhulme Trust for her Philip Leverhulme Prize (PLP‐2016‐127), which supported her during the writing of this article. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. Journal of Agrarian Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/joac.12486",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "473--488",
journal = "Journal of Agrarian Change",
issn = "1471-0358",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "3",
}
