Come rain or come shine: political ecology as a tool to merge labor and environmental history
- Autores: Ethemcan Turhan
- Localización: Miradas en Movimiento, ISSN-e 1852-2173, Vol. Extra 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Naturally Inmigranrs), págs. 159-180
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
If political ecology´s originality arises from its efforts to link social and physical sciences to address environmental distribution conflicts; analyzing natural and labor processes, which are inherently connected and not exclusive of each other, will provide a good basis to understand the interaction between these processes. This article aims at proposing political ecology as a tool to merge labor and environmental histories in an attempt to link environmental change and labor dynamics of migrant seasonal agricultural workers. Considering that all environmental history has in some way also been a part of labor history, this article first presents political ecology approach, then proceeds with the need for both a shift to labor´s geography and agricultural worker´s history of their labor and environment. Presenting the preliminary findings of a historical analysis and a multi-sited ethnographic research in Çukurova (Turkey), this article briefly concludes with the opportunities for a political ecology of migrant agricultural labor that occurs in the intersection labor and environmental histories.
