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SUMMARY:Troubled ways of relating: Humans and More-than-humans in land struggles
LOCATION:Room 3.05
DESCRIPTION:In Cambodia and all across Southeast Asia, people have been wre
 stling to defend the land on which they were living and farming in the face
  of large-scale land acquisitions via Economic Land Concessions and other r
 everse land reforms (e.g. Hall & al. 2011; Li 2010; Schoenberger & 
 al. 2017), relying on strategies ranging from protests, over (collective) l
 and titling, mediation processes, to legal complaints (e.g. Baird 2013; Bou
 rdier 2019; Li 2000; Milne 2013; Mahanty & al. 2021). \n\nA rich body o
 f scholarship, going far beyond the region, points out how such struggles a
 re often complicated by diverging conceptions of land and ways of relating 
 to it (e.g. Gordillo 2002; Kent 2008; Leemann 2020; Tusing 2021). Further, 
 increasing attention came to be paid to “ontological conflicts” implied in 
 land struggles, that is on involved parties’ different and sometimes opposi
 ng ways of seeing the world (e.g. Blaser 2009; de la Cadena 2012; Escobar 2
 008). In these works, which emerged from research in (Latin) American conte
 xts, the accent tends to lie on the opposition of animist and naturalist (o
 r Euro-modern) ‘worlds’, and related equivocations. This approach has been 
 criticized for being overly binary (Bessire & Bond 2014), and for conce
 ntrating on issues that those who are concerned in the first place might no
 t consider the most pressing (Cepek 2016). However, its exhortation to take
  the role of more-than-humans seriously on the political stage appears extr
 emely relevant in Southeast Asian contexts (e.g. Allerton 2009; Beban &
  Work 2014; Endres & Lauser 2012; Guillou 2017). \n\nBuilding upon thes
 e different strands of research, we propose to explore how struggles for la
 nd involving diverging notions of what is at stake and diverse modes of org
 anizing and acting, affect Southeast Asian people’s ways of relating to the
  world, to fellow humans as well as to spirits and other more-than-humans. 
 We also ask how their values and conceptions of what is fair, right or wron
 g might be called into question and altered in the process, for instance as
  people are trying to conform to imposed criteria of what makes a legitimat
 e claimant (Humphrey 2012; Scheer 2021).
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/troubled-ways-of-relating-humans-and-more-than-humans-in-land-struggles
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