Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
COVID-19 has made visible and deepened inequalities globally, while also manifesting the vital role of functional food, health, and care systems in a context of strong socio-ecological interdependencies. We here mobilize bio- and necro-politics to problematize the declaration of agricultural workers as 'essential' and the accompanying policies during the early months of the pandemic, focusing on the region of Lleida, Spain. We show how this proclaimed indispensibility was aiming mostly at securing cheap labor to agri-business while workers continued to be treated as expendable. An intersectionality lens allows us to understand discrimination and racism as health determinants, operating within and defining 'glocal' food necropolitics and COVID-19 biopolitics.
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English
Agricultural labor; Social exclusion; Public health; Intersectionality; Necropolitics; Feminist political ecology; Spain
European Commission 764908
Agencia Estatal de Investigación IJC2020-045101-I
Agencia Estatal de Investigación IJC2019-040934-I
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-00975
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-00116
The Journal of peasant studies ; Vol. 51, Issue 2 (2024), p. 441-465
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