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OverviewFor the first time, this book brings social and historical epistemology into systematic conversation with research on land. How can we know land and understand its diverse meanings around the world and throughout history? In search of new ways in which land can be known, an interdisciplinary group of experts 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. In a three-step process, this volume charts the project of land epistemology. First, three chapters present ways in which land can be known and reconstruct where such different knowledges come from. The second part of the book investigates why, despite this variety of land knowledges, one particular set of knowledge, land as capital, has become dominant. Thirdly, the volume highlights contestations of these dominant understandings of land, how they mobilize alternative knowledges and how they open up possible new ways of relating to land. Land is at the centre of crucial public debates ranging from climate adaptation to housing and development, to agriculture and indigenous peoples’ rights. But these debates are frequently stuck because the meaning of land in different contexts is poorly understood. Bringing together specialists of epistemology and land, this volume is a landmark contribution to understanding land knowledge as a complex factor in these debates. Particularly, it offers techniques to know with and through land by engaging land not only as an object of knowledge but as a resource for understanding what can be known and how. Epistemologies of land presents a variety of ways in which land has been known in different historical contexts and investigates why knowledges of land have recently been reduced to a commodified form. In response, the book traces contestations of this meaning of land, and shows how alternative knowledges set off new and more sustainable ways of relating to land. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Felix AnderlPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9781538176443ISBN 10: 1538176440 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 31 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction, Felix Anderl Part I: Commodifying (Knowledge of) Land Chapter 1. The Land Organism: On the Multispecies Commons and Its Enclosure, David McNally 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 Kušić 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 Index About the ContributorsReviewsFor 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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 Author InformationFelix 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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