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- Convenors:
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Merisa Thompson
(University of Birmingham)
Jessica Eastland-Underwood (University of Warwick)
Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
Natalie Langford (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute )
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- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
Histories of race and colonialism are crucial to understanding the structural legacies underpinning agrarian change. Yet, they remain insufficiently acknowledged. This panel invites papers that examine how processes of racialisation and colonialism are produced and reproduced in the agrarian world.
Long Abstract:
Local and global agrarian systems are subject to an increasing range of socioeconomic, ecological and political crises, from climate change, extreme weather events and biodiversity loss, to inequitable labour and land relations, rising levels of hunger, and geopolitical upheavals. To fully understand our ability to respond to these challenges, and to make agri-food systems more just and sustainable, we must understand the deeper structural causes and legacies of these continuing inequities. Imbalances between the Global North and Global South, and unjust relations of land, trade and labour, are all intimately linked to long histories of capitalist development, which are themselves deeply structured by histories of race and colonialism.
Theoretically, a burgeoning racial capitalism, colonial capitalism and colonial political economy literature examines the constitutive role of race and colonialism in the development of global capitalism (Bhambra, 2001; Robinson, 2000; Tilley and Shilliam, 2018). Yet, the processes by which racialised and colonial legacies are produced and reproduced in patterns of agrarian change are less well understood. This panel consequently welcomes papers that examine the mechanisms by which race and colonialism continue to structure agrarian rural and labour relations across (post)imperial spaces. It is particularly interested in papers that explore these intersections in the contexts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and engage with themes of capital, labour, political economy, social reproduction, rural/agrarian change, resistance, and possibilities for transformation. Convenors are keen to liaise closely with contributors in relation to a possible journal Special Issue.