Amid the ongoing transformation of agrarian territories in peripheral geographies across the world through extended urbanisation, this paper delves into the persistence of peasant and pastoral strategies amidst the closing down effects of land enclosure and fragmentation.

Wie können sich Landschafts- und Stadtforschung wirksamer mit transdisziplinärem Dialog, Sinnlichkeit und Affekt sowie pluriversen Welten beschäftigen? Researching Otherwise stellt sensorische, kollaborative und restitutive methodische Werkzeuge vor, um neue Räume für die Produktion von Wissen zu schaffen.

Across the different vernaculars of the world’s urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or strongly lured away from central locations.

Despite the ‘mobility turn’ in urban studies, there is surprisingly little research into the role people’s everyday movements play in driving urbanisation processes.

This paper introduces the concept of «bypass urbanism» to account for a process of urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new hierarchies.