Building on the differentiated analysis of India’s agrarian crisis, this article argues for centring ecology in understanding the crisis faced by agricultural labour. The empirical case is of landless Dalit women in Punjab, India, experiencing the shift from a cotton-dominated labour regime to a paddy-dominated one. It delineates the materiality(s) of commodity, workplace, and body associated with the two regimes and explores its contingent intersections with social reproduction, caste oppression, capital’s strategies, and the state. Overall, the article argues that labour’s agrarian crisis is both produced through ecology and manifests in/as ecology across different moments and levels of analysis.

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不断变化的农业劳动制度、生态和印度贱民妇女工作的危机


基于对印度农业危机的差异化分析，本文主张以生态学为中心来理解农业劳动力面临的危机。实证案例是印度旁遮普邦无地的达利特妇女，她们经历了从棉花主导的劳动制度到稻谷主导的劳动制度的转变。它描绘了与两种政权相关的商品、工作场所和身体的物质性，并探讨了它与社会再生产、种姓压迫、资本战略和国家的偶然交集。总的来说，文章认为，劳动的土地危机既是通过生态学产生的，也是在不同时刻和分析层次的生态学中表现的。