January 2025
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Social Science & Medicine
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January 2025
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Social Science & Medicine
November 2024
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Antipode
This Symposium aims to replenish geographical thinking in relation to the depletion that is entailed through social reproduction labour, and the wider, structural depletion of social reproduction that is continuing apace in capitalist times. In this introduction, we trace the existing contours of how depletion through social reproduction has come to be conceptualised. Thereafter, we focus on four areas of development that the four spatially oriented papers of the Symposium probe at: first, on the links between harm and depletion; second, on depletion both through and of social reproduction; third, on the methods that are harnessed to examine depletion; and fourth, on the possibility and limits of appreciation and repair.
June 2024
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3 Citations
December 2023
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12 Citations
Global Environmental Change
While adapting to the impacts of climate change will require massive human efforts across landscapes, economies, and everyday social life, adaptation is rarely conceptualized as work conducted by laboring people. In this intervention, we suggest that the conditions under which this largely invisible adaptation labor is currently carried out – in which workers are frequently underpaid, unpaid or unfree - should become a key concern for scholars and advocates of climate justice and just transitions. We propose an inclusive definition of climate adaptation labor and mobilize it to examine how the conditions of life under climate change are being produced and reproduced, by whom, and for whose benefit. Drawing from diverse cases across 12 countries in both Global South/Majority World and Global North/Minority World contexts, we investigate the institutions and labor regimes through which adaptation labor is currently organized and (under)remunerated. We highlight how social difference and power entwine to devalue this work, particularly through idioms of “participation” and “contribution”, and draw attention to the agency, autonomy, and claims-making power of adaptation laborers. Crucially, we suggest theoretical and practical approaches for transforming adaptation labor into a vehicle for redistribution and just transition.
August 2023
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2 Citations
July 2023
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134 Reads
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20 Citations
Antipode
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow-onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adap-tative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together original and mixed-method data collected between 2020 and 2022 in Cambodia to critically examine the "green finance" agenda by highlighting the ways in which microfinance contributes to reproducing and exacerbating climate precarity and harm for many. We evidence how credit-taking can lead to more dangerous and individualised efforts to cope with, and adapt to, existing conditions at home, often at the cost of emotional and bodily depletion. By doing so, we contribute to answering calls for connecting literatures and thinking on social reproduction , depletion, and climate change adaptation.
January 2023
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4 Citations
SSRN Electronic Journal
September 2022
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1 Citation
This report is part of a larger research project funded by UK Research and Innovation's Global Challenges Research Fund entitled 'Depleted by Debt? Focusing a gendered lens on climate resilience, credit and nutrition in Cambodia and South India'. This Cambodia-focused report shows how microfinance loans are leading to an over-indebtedness emergency that undermines borrowers' long-term coping and adaptive capacity in a changing climate. A second Cambodia-focused report frames this debt crisis as a public health crisis, showing how both exacerbate each other and are leading to slow, chronic suffering over the longer term. Together, they offer new and compelling data on the multiple ways in which people's aspirations for transformative climate adaptation and good health are trapped by debt. Citation information
September 2022
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12 Citations
Depleted by Debt? Focusing a gendered lens on climate resilience, credit and nutrition in Cambodia and South India'. This Cambodia-focused report evidences how household debt is manifesting as a public health crisis which is fuelling the health poverty trap in rural Cambodia. A second counterpart Cambodia-focused report shows how microfinance loans are leading to an over-indebtedness emergency that undermines borrowers' long-term coping and adaptive capacity in a changing climate. Together, the two reports offer new and compelling data on the multiple ways in which people's aspirations for good health and transformative climate adaptation are trapped by debt.
September 2022
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9 Citations
This report is part of a larger research project funded by UK Research and Innovation's Global Challenges Research Fund entitled 'Depleted by Debt? Focusing a gendered lens on climate resilience, credit and nutrition in Cambodia and South India'. This Cambodia-focused report shows how microfinance loans are leading to an over-indebtedness emergency that undermines borrowers' long-term coping and adaptive capacity in a changing climate. A second Cambodia-focused report frames this debt crisis as a public health crisis, showing how both exacerbate each other and are leading to slow, chronic suffering over the longer term. Together, they offer new and compelling data on the multiple ways in which people's aspirations for transformative climate adaptation and good health are trapped by debt. Citation information
... Long-term engagement within legal settings enables researchers to trace the discrimination faced by minorities and reveal the pitfalls of political instruments designed to serve welfare state principles, which are often circumvented by profit interests. Integrating a feminist legal geography perspective into housing studies adds a vital layer of analysis by highlighting how displacement and dispossession disproportionately affect women and marginalized gender, often intersecting with race, class, and other axes of identity (Brickell, 2024;Brickell et al., 2024;Hall, 2022Hall, , 2015Nowicki et al., 2023). This approach encourages multi-scalar analysis that considers local legal practices within broader socio-legal and geopolitical contexts. ...
June 2024
... Studies by Johnson et al. (2023) allow identifying several interrelated processes that have occurred over the past 10-15 years and are growing in scale and intensity, which changes employment and established parameters of the labor market, namely: the spread of new, non-standard forms of employment and atypical models of organizing working time; increasing the flexibility of the labor market, which applies to all parameters (demand, supply, price of labor services); the decentralization of collective contractual regulation of employment relations; the differentiation of labor market segments, in which elements of the pre-industrial, industrial and postindustrial eras coexist; strengthening the trend, when a significant part of knowledgeintensive work coexists with the same part of low-complexity work; multi-vector processes occurring in the content and nature of labor. ...
December 2023
Global Environmental Change
... For example, geographers have examined how debt both drives and mediates migration within and across countries' borders. Debt thus produces translocal spaces, which span ruralurban divides and transnational borders (Green & Estes, 2019;Guermond, 2023). Within urban geographies, debt produces uneven socialeconomic landscapes based upon various axes of difference, including race and mobility (Walks, 2013). ...
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Global Debt
August 2023
... Petani hortikultura menghadapi risiko lebih tinggi akibat ketergantungan pada faktor eksternal seperti penyakit, cuaca, dan fluktuasi pasar (Mariyono, 2017). Perubahan iklim dan kondisi lingkungan yang buruk sering menyebabkan gagal panen, yang memperburuk beban utang petani (Guermond et al., 2023). Sejalan dengan penelitian Suwasono & Mulyaningtyas (2019) yang menyebutkan bahwa perbankan cenderung kurang tertarik membiayai sektor pertanian karena dianggap memiliki risiko tinggi, yang disebabkan oleh gangguan alam seperti banjir dan kekeringan, serangan hama dan penyakit, serta fluktuasi harga hasil pertanian. ...
July 2023
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... At the same time, government responses and planned adaptation are more often reported in coastal cities in wealthier countries. This suggests that residents with limited resources in poorer coastal cities have to carry most of the adaptation burden 68 , which is often met with behavioral changes due to the lack of institutional and/or technological support. These results corroborate other studies regarding the inequality in the urban adaptation gap (see pages 34 of ref. 66 and page 941 of ref. 26), which is most pronounced among the poor. ...
January 2023
SSRN Electronic Journal
... A review of the literature shows that most studies have produced mixed results. Nevertheless, amidst such evidence, there has been a burgeoning strand of literature in the 2000s contending that microcredit has not brought in the much-touted socioeconomic transformation as envisaged at its inception (Bateman, 2003(Bateman, , 2012(Bateman, , 2020Iskander et al., 2022). This strand of evidence argues that, instead, microcredit has generally pushed borrowers into debt cycles, mostly citing the classic case of Cambodia, where microcredit programmes have thrived, but borrowers remain poorer 24 Richard Zidana etal __________________________________________________________________________ and enslaved as worsened health outcomes were reported amongst beneficiaries (Iskander et al., 2022). ...
September 2022
... Careful examination of this possibility in Cambodia, however, currently one of the world's most microcredit-penetrated countries, revealed it to be an entirely inappropriate measure. (Guermond et al., 2022) accumulation of scientific insight is essential to foster the global green sustainable transition (GST), alongside the mobilisation of adequate financial resources to finance the investments required for the desired socio-economic change. (Feijo, et al., 2023) The function of MDBs is critical in fulfilling these requirements, primarily because they can serve as the link between globally coordinated States promoting the GST, given their ability to: i) create and sustain a market for the financial system to redirect investments towards cleaner projects; ii) address the loss process in highly leveraged and GHG-intensive sectors; and iii) ensure that this transition does not affect the stability of the financial system. ...
September 2022
... It thus creates an imaginary of natural consistency and perfection, belying the risks that Cambodian farmers now face. Indeed, with household microfinance debts for agriculture climbing, many smallholder farmers find themselves trapped in debt as a result of extreme weather events (Guermond et al., 2022). ...
September 2022
... We further observe that, apart from South Africa, race is often not studied in Africa's contemporary economics, management and finance scholarship literature, including Kenya. While gender aspects are starting to gain ground in the financial geography literature on VC and regional development (Fox-Robertson & Wójcik, 2024), our study is among the first empirical ones in the field to address 'the colour of money' (Alami & Guermond, 2023), especially its intersectional entanglements (Scott & Hussain, 2019), which has been virtually absent in financial geography debates. 5 In the geographical literature on VC (see, e.g., Zhang, 2017;Zook, 2004), racial disparities in capital access are, at best, reduced to a 'culture gap' (Wray, 2012, p. 596) between VC suppliers and VC seekers. ...
June 2022
... To improve performance, bank managers ought to restrict withdrawal limits and promote the usage of mobile banking services. With the goal of formally including 85% of Ghanaians by 2023, Ghana became the first nation to implement a policy for digital financial services (Buruku, 2020;Guermond, 2022). Therefore, Senyo et al., (2022) emphasized that FinTech ecosystem level as building blocks for financial inclusion is shaped by creative and cooperative practices, protective and equitable practices, and legitimizing and sustaining practices. ...
February 2022