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abstract: 'Government officials and representatives of corporations and
international organisations promoting oil palm argue this crop brings
development by creating numerous jobs for the rural poor, even through
large-scale plantations. This study critically assesses this narrative
as deployed in Mesoamerica and analyses oil palm labour regimes in two
study regions in Mexico and one in Guatemala where both smallholders and
private sector plantations are producing oil palm. Following a political
ecology framework, we analyse labour practices as embodied and
political, taking into account larger processes of agrarian change.
Based on interviews and surveys of producers and field labourers, we
found oil palm production was characterised by low employment rates (one
job or less for every 10 hectares of land) and flexible labour regimes
under which field labourers face uncertain, poorly paid and risky
circumstances at work. The palm oil industry defines development
narrowly, as access to income without social change, while it profits
from contemporary and historical inequalities that have turned young
men, many of them indigenous Maya, rural women, and Guatemalan peasants
into cheap labour. However, in oil palm production, profit oriented
neoliberal arrangements by the private sector clash with a peasant moral
economy that emphasise the value of physical labour and
smallholder-worker solidarity. Despite being highly profitable, the palm
oil industry offers limited livelihood opportunities for field
labourers.'
affiliation: 'Castellanos-Navarrete, A (Corresponding Author), Natl Autonomous Univ
Mexico UNAM, Ctr Multidisciplinary Res Chiapas \& Southern Bord, Maria Adelina Flores
34, Chiapas 29230, Mexico.
Castellanos-Navarrete, Antonio, Natl Autonomous Univ Mexico UNAM, Ctr Multidisciplinary
Res Chiapas \& Southern Bord, Maria Adelina Flores 34, Chiapas 29230, Mexico.
Tobar-Tomas, William V.; Lopez-Monzon, Carlos E., San Carlos Univ, Northwestern
Res Inst CUNOROC, Aldea Chivacabe 13001, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.'
author: Castellanos-Navarrete, Antonio and Tobar-Tomas, William V. and Lopez-Monzon,
Carlos E.
author-email: acastela@unam.mx
author_list:
- family: Castellanos-Navarrete
given: Antonio
- family: Tobar-Tomas
given: William V.
- family: Lopez-Monzon
given: Carlos E.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.011
files: []
issn: 0743-0167
journal: JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
keywords: 'Dispossession; Moral economy; Neoliberalism; Precarisation; Rural
Employment'
keywords-plus: 'GENDER; PLANTATIONS; EXPANSION; SMALLHOLDERS; ENVIRONMENT; GUATEMALA;
POLICY; MEXICO'
language: English
month: OCT
number-of-cited-references: '70'
orcid-numbers: Castellanos-Navarrete, Antonio/0000-0001-5796-962X
pages: 169-180
papis_id: 36dc85c04b707f1b34560f6f91432fd1
ref: Castellanosnavarrete2019developmentchange
researcherid-numbers: Castellanos-Navarrete, Antonio/J-1077-2016
times-cited: '12'
title: 'Development without change: Oil palm labour regimes, development narratives,
and disputed moral economies in Mesoamerica'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000497249800016
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '71'
web-of-science-categories: Geography; Regional \& Urban Planning
year: '2019'