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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reduced ‘fates of the body’ and ‘production of value for others’ in the global garment industry

T2 - Thinking with Berlant on eating and hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic

AU - Brickell, Katherine

AU - Lawreniuk, Sabina

N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to the garment workers who participated in our ReFashion study in Cambodia. The research was funded by UKRI GCRF (EP/V026054/1) and fieldwork was carried out by the Cambodia Development Resource Institute. Access requests to underlying research materials should be addressed to [email protected]. Open access funding enabled and organized by ProjektDEAL. Publisher Copyright: The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2022 The Authors. The Geographical Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

PY - 2022/9

Y1 - 2022/9

N2 - 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 diminished eating and reduced bodily fates of garment workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that thinking with Berlant encourages and supports scholars to contemplate and articulate how the ‘production of value for others’ can reduce the ‘fates of the body’ of those living and labouring at the sharp end of the capitalist system.

AB - 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 diminished eating and reduced bodily fates of garment workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that thinking with Berlant encourages and supports scholars to contemplate and articulate how the ‘production of value for others’ can reduce the ‘fates of the body’ of those living and labouring at the sharp end of the capitalist system.

KW - Cambodia

KW - garment

KW - hunger

KW - labour

KW - pandemic

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85132109595

U2 - 10.1111/geoj.12454

DO - 10.1111/geoj.12454

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:85132109595

SN - 0016-7398

VL - 188

SP - 464

EP - 467

JO - GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL

JF - GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL

IS - 3

ER -