24. – 28. March | Colloquium | American Association of Geographers, Detroit.
With neoliberal urbanization, climate and economic uncertainties, wars, and conflicts disrupting agrarian livelihoods and landscapes, as well as global food chains, the agrarian question is gaining renewed relevance in urban studies and its associated disciplines (e.g., Cowan, 2018; Arboleda, 2020; Balakrishnan & Gururani, 2021; Ghosh & Meer, 2021; Paprocki & McCarthy, 2024). Recent research on ‘extended urbanization,’ which explores the interconnectedness of agrarian landscapes and urbanization, illustrates how peasant and pastoral livelihoods are being eroded due to the “enclosure of land away from social purposes in favor of privatized, exclusionary, and profit-driven modes of appropriation, whether for resource extraction, agribusiness, logistics functions, or other purposes” (Brenner & Schmid, 2015, p. 167; see also Schmid & Topalović, 2023). The agrarian and the urban question are thus closely intertwined and mutually constitutive in the era of planetary urbanization and crucial to the thickening of the fabric of extended urbanization as well as the growth of urban agglomerations (Sevilla-Buitrago, 2022).
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Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies
Chair of Sociology, Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid, Dr. Nitin Bathla