Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 28 May
12:00 - 13:00
Location
CO304, Cotton Building, VUW
Speaker: Professor Katharine McKinnon – Human Geography and Development Studies — SGEES, Community Economies Institute
Agricultural development and livelihood initiatives tend to focus on improving farm productivity, facilitating access to markets, and increasing cash income for farmers. But how well do these aims meet farmer’s hopes and aspirations? Do they provide pathways to what farmers consider to be a ‘good life’? This presentation shares the results of research conducted with farmers in Northwest Cambodia to explore their conceptualisations of what a good life looks like, and the ways in which farming both creates and erodes wellbeing for themselves, their families and communities, and their lands. Drawing on community economies notion of surviving-well-together (Gibson-Graham et al. 2016, McKinnon et al. 2019) as well as Ethan Miller’s work on ecological livelihoods, this research elucidates the relationality and diversity of wellbeing and livelihoods for farmers in Northwest Cambodia.
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