Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Scoones, Ian; Wolford, Wendy; Peluso, Nancy Lee; Edelman, Marc; Baviskar, Amita; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.

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Produktbeschreibung

The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 678
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040013373
• Artikelnr.: 69495581

Autorenporträt

Ian Scoones is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton UK. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training but today works on questions of policy around land, agriculture, and agrarian change, mostly in Africa. He is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded PASTRES programme (http: //pastres.org). Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Nedtherlands; Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing, and Associate of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute. Amita Baviskar is Dean, Faculty and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India. Her research and teaching address the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India. She focuses on the role of social inequality and identities in natural resource conflicts. Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA. His latest book is Peasant Politics of the Twenty-first Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (2024). Nancy Lee Peluso is Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Global Development, and Vice Provost for International Affairs, Cornell University, Ithica, USA. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical ethnography.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Climate change and agrarian struggles 2. The environmentalization of the
agrarian question and the agrarianization of the climate justice movement
3. Violent silence: framing out social causes of climate-related crises 4.
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim
together? 5. The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to
agrarian counter-accounts 6. Imagined transitions: agrarian capitalism and
climate change adaptation in Colombia 7. Beyond bad weather: climates of
uncertainty in rural India 8. Climate rentierism after coal: forests,
carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields 9. Up
in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon
planetary politics to confront climate change 10. Power for the
Plantationocene: solar parks as the colonial form of an energy plantation.
11. Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle 12.
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in
southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to
benefit from diversification processes 13. Advocating afforestation,
betting on BECCS: land- based negative emissions technologies (NETs) and
agrarian livelihoods in the global South 14. Food, famine and the free
trade fallacy: the dangers of market fundamentalism in an era of climate
emergency 15. Uneven resilience and everyday adaptation: making Rwanda's
green revolution 'climate smart' 16. Rethinking 'just transitions' from
coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles 17. Rescaling
the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in
key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5 °C Paris agreement target 18.
Producing nature-based solutions: infrastructural nature and agrarian
change in San Martín, Peru 19. Climate refugees or labour migrants? Climate
reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh 20.
Certificated exclusion: forest carbon sequestration project in Southwest
China 21. Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through
Indigenous territorial struggles 22. Resisting, leveraging, and reworking
climate change adaptation projects from below: placing adaptation in
Ecuador's agrarian struggle 23. Linking climate-smart agriculture to
farming as a service: mapping an emergent paradigm of datafied
dispossession in India 24. Prefiguring buen sobrevivir: Lenca women's
(e)utopianism amid climate change. 25. Forest as 'nature' or forest as
territory? Knowledge, power, and climate change conservation in the
Peruvian Amazon 26. Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for
climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives