... to begin again. Decolonizing as an ever-beginning brings four intertwined aspects: (1) the land, (2) the body, (3) the ethics, and (4) the politics. Together, these continue to transform us profoundly and might offer some hope for new beginnings toward decolonizing the colonial legacy of our fields...

...Abstract This chapter proposes a framework explaining the evolution of property rights in land, assuming two unequal groups of actors: elites possessing means of violence and nonelite land cultivators. It then shows that all intermediary groups – those acting between the chief violence holders...

... the growth of the crops, the data is processed at the cloud level and a suitable NPK and irrigation mix is applied. The land drainage, fertilization and irrigation systems are controlled by ML algorithms, and a mobile application will provide real-time data for the entire system. Solar energy powers...

... with the usurpation and transformation of land seriously? Motivated by these broader questions, in this chapter, I deploy an approach to the critical inquiry of race that I have tentatively been calling anticolonial environmental sociology. As a single iteration of the anticolonial environmental sociology of race...

...Abstract Women from many cultures have historically been closely tied to the land and the environment through their role as subsistence farmers. But as the more developed nations have shifted to commercial agriculture and improved technology, farming has become a male-dominated industry. China’s...

... Federation to reflect on three recent examples: the recent changes at Brookfield in response to the perennial issue of the milk price lead us to ask who benefits from the production of higher quality food; the care for the land and Adam Macy’s reforms at Home Farm point us to issues about sustainability...

...Abstract Purpose This chapter uses a feminist political ecology perspective to demonstrate how gender interacts with access to land as a re/productive resource in Tamale, a rapidly urbanizing city in West Africa. The study gives insight into the strategies that vulnerable groups employ to gain...

...Abstract To explore whether supposedly non-modern patrimonial arrangements ever advance the “modern” economy, this essay examines emergent state institutional practices in North America in relation to the domain of public lands from colonial times to the late nineteenth-century U.S. I deconstruct...