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- Convenors:
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Marianne Elisabeth Lien
(University of Oslo)
Louisa Crysmann (University of Cologne)
Magnus Olav Nyaas Ravnå (University of Oslo)
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- Format:
- Combined Format Open Panel
Short Abstract
This panel brings together scholars with an interest in land use transformations in (post)-agricultural landscapes. Mobilizing the notion of ‘epistemic frontiers’ we investigate how agricultural imaginaries shape and undo relational entanglements, through shifting land use, past and present.
Description
Agricultural landscapes in Europe are caught in tensions between abandonment, intensification and restoration. This panel brings together scholars with an interest in land use transformations in (post-)agricultural landscapes, both past and present. From early forms of domestication to agricultural expansion, technological intensification and carbon accounting, farming has always already been a site of shifting frontiers. We ask what relations are being produced, and (un-)intentionally co-produced, but also what gets erased as farming is entangled in novel desires and imaginaries.
Mobilizing the notion of ‘frontier’ as an analytical lens, we invite empirical contributions from across Europe and beyond that seek to identify sites, materials, moments or practices of contested land use. These may include soils, plants, animal bodies, geomorphologies, metabolisms, carbon cycles, monitoring, measuring and caring for land and rural livelihoods. We investigate how frontiers emerge and what remains in their aftermath, and are particularly interested in instances of transition and contestation. These can be located between ecological and economic efficiency, utilitarian and conservation paradigms, or science and politics. Shifting agricultural paradigms enact epistemic frontiers at various levels, including tensions between emplaced modes of knowing and universalizing knowledge practices.
Inviting critical approaches to the subtle and politicized dimensions of shifting land use historically and today, this panel investigates (neo-)colonial contact zones within rural livelihoods, contributing to a better understanding of future resilience. The panel will feature a traditional panel with presented papers, followed by an organized roundtable with the presenters to discuss rural frontiers as an overarching theme.