How do we explain Tunisian female workers joining fields of work that have long been socially categorized as “manly”, as is the case with manufacturing wires for cars and heavy...
Land is an authoritarian source of rent. It has a market exchange value and is one of the means of practicing control and hegemony. Nevertheless, land is much more than...
In addition to the effects of neoliberal policies in Tunisia, corruption has hit the agricultural sector hard, as fertile lands were granted to those close to the regime, and the...
There is a rapport between informal labour and the marginalization and impoverishment of women farmers in Tunisia’s rural areas… And it is likely that this is the case elsewhere as...
There has been a new phenomenon of sprouting slum-like residential areas for low-income migrants. These grow in the heart of regulated neighbourhoods which are primarily inhabited by the middle class....
Economic growth is usually linked to the revenues generated from exporting primary raw materials, like phosphate, fish stock, and agriproducts. Shrunken exports mean shrunken growth. However, growth generated from exporting...
