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Felix Anderl is professor of conflict studies at the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg. His research focuses on conflicts over land, food and rural development. Linking the disciplines of social movement research, international relations, and conflict research, he emphasizes field research, such as participant observation in social movements and the institutions they oppose.Anderl’s edited collection is an exciting foray into how land knowledges change through a plurality of meanings of land as a caring subject with histories, relationships, and effects. A terrific resource for all social scientists concerned with social justice and the vital need to rethink human relationships to the environment.
- Wendy Harcourt, professor of gender, diversity and sustainable development, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
An exciting endeavour to bring land, the very material and physically located base of living, back into global studies, where the social world sometimes seems fluid, imagined and detached from its material ground.
- Bettina Engels, professor in peace and conflict research, Freie Universität Berlin,
For something that is central to human history, identity and society, the meanings of land are seriously undertheorized. Epistemologies of Land addresses this glaring lacunae. Within the context of the climate emergency, demonstrating that land-based relations continues to be the foundation of both life on this planet and the contemporary social order is an urgent and important task. This timely book will be read and appreciated by students and scholars alike for its unique insights into the critical role of the knowledge that can be derived from land and the implications of that knowledge for the future.
- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, professor of economics and international development studies, Trent University,
Land is at the centre of crucial public debates ranging from climate adaptation to housing and development, to agriculture and indigenous peoples’ rights. These debates frequently become stuck, though, because the meaning of land in different contexts is poorly understood. Bringing together specialists of epistemology and land, this open access book is a landmark contribution to understanding land knowledge as a complex factor in these debates.
Land has been known in astonishingly different ways throughout history, but in recent decades one particular understanding of land as commodity has become increasingly hegemonic globally. This understanding has enormously destructive effects, not only for many people and animals living on and from the land that is increasingly grabbed for extractivist purposes, but also for possible imaginations of how humans can relate to land in the future.
In Epistemologies of Land, scholars reconstruct how the understanding of land has come to be reduced to “land as commodity” historically, what the consequences of this epistemological transformation have been, and what alternative ways of understanding land could help establish intellectually abundant and ecologically sustainable ways of relating to the land we live on. Particularly, the book shows how a change in perspective – thinking society through land – can lay the foundation not only for knowing more about land, but for a different kind of environmental and social knowledge that could recover forgotten wisdom of how humans and animals have historically related to land, and by that transform the ways in which land contributes to our daily life beyond its diminished meaning as an economic resource.
Contributors include: Eloisa Berman Arevalo, Shailaja Fennell, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Katarina Kusic, Maarten Meijer, David Nally, Sakshi, Leo Steeds, and Anna Wolkenhauer.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by European Research Council (ERC).
In search of new ways in which land can be known, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in this book demonstrates that not only is it important to learn about the plurality of meanings of land, but that knowing through land offers new ways of understanding social relations more broadly.
Introduction, Felix Anderl
Part I: Commodifying (Knowledge of) Land
Chapter 1. The Land Organism: On the Multispecies Commons and Its Enclosure, David Nally
Chapter 2. Land as Capital: a Genealogy through the Birth and Development of Economic Thought, Leo Steeds
Chapter 3. Of ‘False Economies’ and ‘Missing Markets’: An Essay in three acts, Shailaja Fennell
Part II: Contesting Land Knowledge through Alternatives
Chapter 4. Stories at “Land’s End”: Emplacements and Displacements of Black Women's Land Epistemologies in the Colombian Caribbean, Eloisa Berman Arevalo
Chapter 5. What's in a land grab? Knowing Dispossession and Land in South East Europe, Katarina Kušic
Chapter 6. Land in Courts: Registers of Memory, Sovereignty, and Justice, Sakshi
Part III: Knowing and Unknowing Land
Chapter 7. Knowing and Unknowing the Countryside – Epistemological Implications of Rural Social Policy in Zambia, Anna Wolkenhauer
Chapter 8. On the EU’s Epistemologies of Soils’ Resourcefulness, or: Why Land and Soil Are Not the Same, Maarten Meijer
Chapter 9. From Epistemologies of Land to the Lands of Epistemology: Being and Becoming in the Agrocene, Inanna Hamati-Ataya
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About the Contributors
OPEN ACCESS
Publication in open access of the book Epistemologies of Land, edited by Felix Anderl is financed from the funds of the ERC project ARTEFACT.
Global Epistemics is a transdisciplinary book series established in partnership with the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) based at the University of Cambridge, that aims to foster, promote, and disseminate empirically grounded and theoretically ambitious research on knowledge as a cultural and natural phenomenon. The series invites individual and collaborative works that efficiently transgress contemporary disciplinary boundaries across the historical, social, and natural sciences, to fruitfully advance our understanding of the nature, history, politics, pragmatics, and normative dimensions of human knowledges – their constitution, co-evolution, diffusion, cultural and material impacts, forms, and uses – as well as their relation to non-human knowledges and to evolving socio-ecological environments. We also invite approaches to animal (human and non-human) cognition that can redefine classical philosophical questions on knowledge and knowing, or delineate new areas and horizons for philosophical and ethical inquiry, on the basis of advanced empirical research and new research methodologies.Grounded in an anthropologically holistic understanding of knowledge that encompasses its ideational, artistic, institutional, and material manifestations across history, as well as the full spectrum of historical modes of practical and intellectual validation (from ‘prehistorical’ to ‘modern’ paradigms, practices, and technologies and from ‘ancient’ to ‘modern’ science), the series also approaches globality simultaneously as totality, extension, and connectivity. It thus aims to advance naturalist, artisanal, and historical epistemologies beyond classical ontological and temporal divides; to explore the patterns of epistemic emergence, diffusion, and exchange across historical times, geocultural spaces, ecological contexts, and sociopolitical configurations; and to investigate modes of knowing and doing that illuminate human commonalities while making sense of our differences as manifestations of our cultural and behavioural plasticity.The series welcomes empirically grounded and intellectually robust contributions that serve its mission, regardless of their methodologies, conceptual frameworks, levels of analysis, temporal scope, or specific objects of investigation. This includes investigations of contemporaneous natural and cultural structures, processes, actors, and media of epistemic activity, as well as studies inscribed in the longue durée or deep-historical time, or addressing past or present knowledge from a comparative perspective. We are looking for projects that can speak to audiences across academic specialties, whether they aim to initiate new transdisciplinary work, disseminate the results of such research, or develop ambitious syntheses.
Series Editor: Inanna Hamati-Ataya
Advisory Board: Rigas Arvanitis (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) | Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) | Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge) | Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago) | Maria Birnbaum (University of Bern) | Avital Bloch (Universidad de Colima) | Jenny Boulboullé (Utrecht University) | Jordan Branch (Brown University) | Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université de Paris) | David Christian (Macquarie University) | James H. Collier (Virginia Tech) | Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) | Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge) | Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia) | Stéphane Dufoix (Université Paris Nanterre) | Sven Dupré (Utrecht University) | David Edgerton (King’s College London) | Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) | Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge) | Anna Grasskamp (University of St. Andrews) | Clare Griffin (Nazarbayev University) | Marieke Hendriksen (Utrecht University) | Dag Herbjørnsrud (Senter for global og komparativ idéhistorie) | Noboru Ishikawa (Kyoto University) | Christian Jacob (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) | Martin Jones (University of Cambridge) | Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh) | Isaac A. Kamola (Trinity College, Connecticut) | Alexandre Klein (Université Laval) | Tuba Kocaturk (Deakin University) | Pablo Kreimer (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) | Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) | Helen Lauer (University of Dar es Salaam) | G.E.R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge) | Carlos López-Beltrán (National Autonomous University of Mexico) | Eric Lybeck (University of Manchester) | Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) | Amanda Machin (Witten-Herdecke University) | Tara Mahfoud (King’s College London) | Maximilian Mayer (University of Nottingham Ningbo) | Willard McCarty (King's College London) | Atsuro Morita (Osaka University) | Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University) | David Nally (University of Cambridge) | John Naughton (University of Cambridge) | Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurich) | Johan Östling (Lund University) | Ingrid Paoletti (Politecnico di Milano) | V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona) | Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen) | David Pretel (The College of Mexico) | Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University) | Amanda Rees (University of York) | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden University) | Francesca Rochberg (University of California at Berkeley) | Alexander Ruser (University of Agder) | Anne Salmond (University of Auckland) | Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University) | James C. Scott (Yale University) | Elisabeth Simbürger (Universidad de Valparaíso) | Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) | Fred Spier (University of Amsterdam) | Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University) | Tereza Stöckelová (Czech Academy of Sciences) | Jomo Sundaram (Khazanah Research Institute) | Liba Taub (University of Cambridge) | Daniel Trambaiolo (University of Hong Kong) | Corinna Unger (European University Institute) | Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Stéphane Van Damme (European University Institute) | Andrés Vélez Posada (Universidad EAFIT) | Aparecida Vilaça (National Museum, Brazil) | Simon Werrett (University College London) | Helen Yitah (University of Ghana) | Longxi Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)