The agrarian question of climate change

Paprocki, Kasia ORCID: 0000-0001-5202-351X and McCarthy, James (2024) The agrarian question of climate change. Progress in Human Geography, 48 (6). 691 - 715. ISSN 0309-1325

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Abstract

The agrarian question of the twenty-first century is the agrarian question of climate change. The classical agrarian question asked how capitalist development was reshaping fin de siècle agriculture and with what consequences. The answers often contradicted predictions, and thereby teleological notions of development. Today, we must ask how climate change adaptation and mitigation, alongside and through other ongoing processes of capitalist development, are reshaping agrarian lives, livelihoods, landscapes, and politics, and with what consequences. We argue that attention to the agrarian question is essential to understanding social, political, and economic transformation broadly in the time of climate change.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/phg
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	S Agriculture G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2024 23:14
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:56
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124340

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