Mark Vicol
@markvicol.bsky.social
Agrarian sociologist at the Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University. Study and teach the politics of land, livelihoods and labour.
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About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
Reposted by Mark Vicol
For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
#ExpropriationBill
#ExpropriationBill
New paper: we argue that the everyday experience of food insecurity is highly differentiated in village contexts in Myanmar (and the Global South more broadly), and develop an everyday political economy approach to interrogate this difference. Free here rdcu.be/d5bci paywall doi.org/10.1007/s125....
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone
rdcu.be
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New paper: we argue that the everyday experience of food insecurity is highly differentiated in village contexts in Myanmar (and the Global South more broadly), and develop an everyday political economy approach to interrogate this difference. Free here rdcu.be/d5bci paywall doi.org/10.1007/s125....