From poultry plants in the US South pushing low-wage workers to process 175 birds per minute (BPM), to the slow violence of pesticides in Punjab causing premature disability to the European food sovereignty movement challenging strategies of resisting capitalist discipline imported from digital rights activism- scholars, Carrie Freshour, Divya Sharma and Barbara Van Dyck join the WBI show to connect the dots of agroecology across the global south.

How can we trace the lineage of poultry production to the plantation? What do the oral histories of 80 year old farmers in the Punjab region tell us about ecological degradation and the green revolution? How does transforming our relationship to food, land and each other require a transformation of the state? This extended cut episode addresses these questions and more.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel

Guests: University of Washington Assistant Professor of Geography Carrie Freshour, University of Sussex Lecturer in Sustainable Development Divya Sharma and Associate Professor at Coventry University in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience Barbara Van Dyck

Music: Drew Lewis
Show Notes:Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination (Interview w/ Rob Wallace)
Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States - Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, 2020
Divya Sharma - Mobilization for Socio-Ecological Sustainability in post-Green Revolution Punjab
Poultry and Prisons by Carrie Freshour (Monthly Review)
“Ain't No Life For A Mother!” Racial Capitalism And The Crisis Of Social Reproduction by Carrie Freshour
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement by Barbara Van Dyck
(PDF) Articulating Agrarian Racism: Statistics and Plantationist Empirics by Brian Williams
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.
What is Revolutionary About The Green Revolution?

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