Urban-agrarian entanglements

Climate change is forcing a reconsideration of land use, infrastructural systems, and settlement across urban and agrarian space, with specific, grounded political demands coming from both sides that are often articulated in opposition to each other. Meanwhile, scholars of agrarian and urban studies are rarely in dialogue–despite the fact that places and people each studies are materially and politically connected.

This project develops resources to move from a position of opposition to one of intellectual and political solidarity across urban and rural space, and between urban and rural/agrarian studies. Through ongoing an dialogue and working papers, we seek to understand how urban and agrarian transformations are materially connected across space, and where and how their politics converge and intersect, in order to identify possibilities for alliance-building. 

Partners: Kian Goh, UCLA ; Kasia Paprocki, LSE