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Accepted Paper:

Centring race and colonialism in agrarian political economy  
Ben Richardson (University of Warwick) Merisa Thompson (University of Birmingham) Natalie Langford (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ) Jessica Eastland-Underwood (University of Warwick)

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Paper short abstract:

An overview of how race and colonialism have been treated in Agrarian Political Economy

Paper long abstract:

This paper sets out the premise that race and colonialism have been marginalized within the field of Agrarian Political Economy, preventing it from better addressing the unjust inequalities arising from present forms of racism and coloniality. It argues that these twin themes can be centred by replacing the agrarian question with the colonial question to provide an alternative starting point for enquiry, and by using political economy scholarship on the imbrication of race, colonialism, modernity, and capitalism to plot a route through it. The final section identifies colonially-rooted processes of racialized differentiation across the global North and South and suggests how these can deepen our understanding of how these have been brought into the service of capital but also mobilized in practices of resistance.

Panel P37
Centring race and colonialism to questions of agrarian change
  Session 1 Thursday 26 June, 2025, -