{UAH} Questioning Landownership

Call for Papers for the AAG Annual Conference April 6-10 2020 in Denver

Questioning Landownership
Organizers: Marit Rosol (University of Calgary), Felix Silomon-Pflug
(Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

One result of the 2008 systemic failure of the global economic and
financial order is a massive run of capital into real estate and
agricultural lands. This 'land-grabbing' or 'land hunger' (van der
Ploeg et al. 2015; Borras and Franco 2013) brings questions of land,
forms of ownership and tenure, and access prominently on the agenda.
Going beyond the – important and necessary – critique of the
increasing concentration of land in the hands of a few, in this
session we want to question the concept of (private) landownership
itself.

Specifically, our objectives are to:
1) question the hegemony of private landownership, which is usually
uncontested in everyday life and mostly invisible in political
discussions (e.g. Blomley 2003, 2016).
2) explore other possible framings, such as, for example, the
theory of access (Ribot and Peluso 2003) and related discussions of
power, claim-making, benefits and control.
3) draw attention to the governance and regulation of land use,
transfer and ownership (e.g. Sikor and Müller 2009).
4) investigate the transformative potential of
alternative/collective/participatory forms of land-ownership, tenure
and use (e.g. DeFilippis et al. 2019; Gombay 2018).

To discuss these issues, we welcome theory-driven and/or empirically
grounded papers relating to ur-ban and rural experiences from around
the globe. Guiding questions include, but are not limited to the
following:
• What are the genealogies of present landownership structures in
specific geographical locations? What are the consequences of the
territorialisation of property?
• What is to say about the relationship between possession and
(formal) ownership of land, access to land and its regulation and
governance? What are conditions and implications of different forms of
governance? How can they serve as political strategy and/or capacity
to act?
• What role do communities, civic organizations, the state and the
market play in this?
• How can a radical democratization/social-ecological
transformation of land ownership and use look like and be implemented?
What historic forms of collective/participatory landownership or land
use existed and how were they organized? What kind of examples that
strive for such transformed land ownership exist and what can we learn
from them?
• What about the scalability of collective forms of land use? Are
they necessarily local or how can they be "scaled up"?

Format: Paper session (15 minutes presentation per paper)
Please send abstracts (max 250 words) including the title of the
proposed paper presentation, name of author(s), and contact
information to Marit Rosol
(marit.rosol@ucalgary.ca<mailto:marit.rosol@ucalgary.ca>) and Felix
Silomon-Pflug
(silomon@geo.uni-frankfurt.de<mailto:silomon@geo.uni-frankfurt.de>) by
Monday, 30 September 2019.
For general information on the conference see:
https://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/

References:
Blomley, Nicholas (2003): Unsettling the City. Urban Land and the
Politics of Property. London, New York: Routledge.
— (2016): The Territory of Property. In Progress in Human Geography 40
(5), pp. 593–609.
Borras, Saturnino M.; Franco, Jennifer C. (2013): Global Land Grabbing
and Political Reactions 'From Below'. In Third World Quar-terly 34
(9), pp. 1723–1747.
DeFilippis, James; Williams, Olivia R.; Pierce, Joseph; Martin,
Deborah G.; Kruger, Rich; Esfahani, Azadeh Hadizadeh (2019): On the
Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United
States. In Antipode 51 (3), pp. 795–817.
Gombay, Nicole (2018): Just Enough to Survive: Economic Citizenship in
the Context of Indigenous Land Claims. In Anthony Ince, Sarah Marie
Hall (Eds.): Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis. Practices, Politics
and Possibilities. London, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
pp. 160–174.
Ribot, Jesse C.; Peluso, Nancy Lee (2003): A Theory of Access. In
Rural Sociology 68 (2), pp. 153–181.
Sikor, Thomas; Müller, Daniel (2009): The Limits of State-Led Land
Reform: An Introduction. In World Development 37 (8), pp. 1307–1316.
van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe; Franco, Jennifer C.; Borras, Saturnino M.
(2015): Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in Europe: A Preliminary
Analysis. In Canadian Journal of Development Studies 36 (2), pp.
147–162.



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Marit Rosol, Dr. | Canada Research Chair "Global Urban Studies"
Associate Professor of Geography | Department of Geography |
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW | Calgary AB | T2N 1N4 | Canada
room: 446 Earth Sciences Building | phone: ++1 403 220-6200
https://geog.ucalgary.ca/profiles/marit-rosol |
marit.rosol@ucalgary.ca<mailto:marit.rosol@ucalgary.ca>

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