“Who raised the olive trees?”… and who picks them today? Monoculture, landscapes and women's work in southern Spain
Résumé
Pannel coordinated by Cristiana Bastos (Universidade de Lisboa) and Seth Holmes (University of California Berkeley) called "Transformed landscapes, uprooted commons, cultivated hopes: plantation legacies and future possibles in contemporary food systems"
This communication explores olive harvesting practices and olive oil production. Based on ongoing ethnographic work in southern Spain, this papers examines how current olive food system contributes to making some humans more vulnerable than others, and why this impacts women disproportionately.