‘After me, all this is over’: Exploring class‐entangled geographical agency in a shifting climate among tobacco farmers in South India

This paper builds on the concept of “socio-ecological fix” to emphasise contradictions inherent in seeking produce nature through such fixes for insecure petty commodity producers who occupy class place both labour and capital. I explore how producer households cultivating tobacco western Tamil Nadu, South India, are reworking practices managing erratic rainfall groundwater depletion. Agriculture Nadu is decline, dominated by small marginal farming that oscillate between agrarian production waged work make ends meet. These unstable have historically accumulated exploitation appropriation groundwater, order transition industry. However long-term decline region’s aquifers highlights limits over-exploitation. The makes two contributions exploring remaking space move beyond accumulation. First, biophysical socio-ecological fixes, therefore acknowledging mercurial as well produced aspects a form space. Second, adjusting productive capacity, enact forms resilience decreasing their reliance workers landscapes demand less labour, tending away from accumulation towards salaried jobs. Overall, looks producers, which constitute norm Global settings, offer new paths thinking about class-entangled geographical space-making understanding trajectories