Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India
以印度旁遮普邦无地达利特女性为案例，分析农业劳动体制从棉花转向水稻如何通过生态变化加剧了她们的劳动危机，对关注农业转型、社会不平等和生态经济的学者有参考价值。
Abstract Building on the differentiated analysis of India’s agrarian crisis, this article argues for centring ecology in understanding the crisis faced by agricultural labour. The empirical case is of landless Dalit women in Punjab, India, experiencing the shift from a cotton-dominated labour regime to a paddy-dominated one. It delineates the materiality(s) of commodity, workplace, and body associated with the two regimes and explores its contingent intersections with social reproduction, caste oppression, capital’s strategies, and the state. Overall, the article argues that labour’s agrarian crisis is both produced through ecology and manifests in/as ecology across different moments and levels of analysis.