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Epistemologies of Land
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2024
Summary
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 volume 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.
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Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7644-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7646-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Series Editor’s Note No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 1 The Land Organism No access
Chapter 2 Land as Capital No access
Chapter 3 Of “False Economies” and “Missing Markets” No access
Chapter 4 Stories at “Land’s End” No access
Chapter 5 What’s in a Land Grab? No access
Chapter 6 Land in Courts No access
Chapter 7 Knowing and Unknowing the Countryside No access
Chapter 8 On the European Union’s Epistemologies of Soils’ Resourcefulness, or Why Land and Soil Are Not the Same No access
Chapter 9 From Epistemologies of Land to the Lands of Epistemology No access
