Organizer: Joana Salém Vasconcelos, Universidad Federal do ABC, joana.salem@gmail.com Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Universidad Estatal de Ceará, lia.barbosa@uece.br
Country: United Kingdom
Takes place: Digital
From - Until: 30.10.2025 -
Website: https://haal.cl/index.php/haal
The journal Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL) invites submissions of unpublished articles to be included in the dossier "Land, labour, and women’s resistance in the countryside." The dossier will bring together research on rural women in Latin America from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on work (productive and reproductive), peasant struggles for agrarian reform, the defence of territories and commons, political participation and community leadership, as well as issues related to agricultural production techniques and (agro)ecological experiences.
HAAL Special Issue: Land, work and rural women’s resistance in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Global South
The journal Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL) invites submissions of unpublished articles to be included in the dossier "Land, labour, and women’s resistance in the countryside." The dossier will bring together research on rural women in Latin America from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on work (productive and reproductive), peasant struggles for agrarian reform, the defence of territories and commons, political participation and community leadership, as well as issues related to agricultural production techniques and (agro)ecological experiences.
In the history of Latin American capitalism rural women have formed the largest contingent of unpaid workers, which has generated a chain of determining factors for our economies. First, women’s work in the countryside made low rural wages for men viable, since men were fed and clothed based on the unpaid labour of their mothers, wives and daughters. Second, these low rural wages have allowed lower urban food prices, which, in turn, have generated lower wages for urban workers and, consequently, bigger margins for rural and urban capitalists. We start from the premise that the unpaid labour of rural women is one of the most central foundations supporting the expansion of peripheral capitalism in our region. In this regard, we are interested in articles that address the following topics:
- The productive and reproductive work of rural and indigenous women in Latin America from 1950 to the present.
- Agrarian reforms in Latin America and women’s participation.
- Trade union and non-trade union struggles of rural Latin American women.
- Women’s resistance in the pursuit of rights to land and territory.
- The role of Latin America rural women in agroecological experiments and processes.
- Daily life, community leadership and political action of Latin American rural women.
- Rural women and political parties.
- Rural women, education and health in the countryside.
- Gender violence and human rights in rural areas.
Papers should be unpublished, include a discussion of recent literature on the topic, be based on primary research and make an original contribution to the field; depending on how they are developed, purely theoretical contributions may also be considered. If you would like to contribute an article to the dossier please send a title and 300-word abstract to the editors (Joana Salém Vasconcelos joana.salem@gmail.com and Lia Pinheiro Barbosa lia.barbosa@uece.br).
Manuscripts should be prepared in strict accordance with HAAL’s style guidelines.
Further information on HAAL’s editorial policy is available at: www.haal.cl
Key dates:
Deadline for the submission of manuscripts: 30 October 2025
Deadline for final versions: 15 April 2026
Publication of dossier: 30 May 2026