Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Land back movements – those that demand the return of lands that have been lost to colonial and capitalist dispossession – aim to make alternatives to extractivism real. In one such agrarian movement in Sumatra, workers reclaimed land while also creating alternative visions of home life and livelihood that include migration. This article retells the lives of two women and their families active in this land reclaiming movement to consider especially how migration and mobility influence their activist and economic practices in relation to the land. These workers-turned-reclaimers approach relations to land through forms of social reproduction that refuse the gendered exploitation of most plantation economies. In so doing, they offer understandings of the plantation-migration nexus and their movement struggles that are distinct from the macro-theoretical tale that ends with dispossession.
Source: Globalizations
Authors: David E. Gilbert, Afrizal
Institutions: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Andalas University
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7106521696