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16 avril 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.iheid.6764
- isbn: 9782940415779
- eisbn: 9782940503834
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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gender agriculture anthropologie économique commerce équitable développement rural économie rurale femmes pauvreté pays en voie de développement relations hommes-femmes ressources naturelles société civile travail Environmental studies, Geography & Development SOC055000 JFCVSujets proches
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Nandini Gunewardena, « “Sugar coating”: the gender of structural violence in Sri Lanka’s sugarcane economy », Graduate Institute Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.iheid.6764
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Introduction This paper focuses on a case study of the social and economic transformations that occurred in the lives of rural women following the introduction of commercial scale sugarcane production on the island nation of Sri Lanka, a relative newcomer to large-scale sugar production. My research for this study spans over twenty years and focuses on Moneragala’s Southeastern district, the most impoverished region of the country and location of commercial sugar companies. Given the harsh le...