Giving Land Back: Property, Authority and Agrarian Change in Myanmar

Project Information

Giving Land Back

Grant agreement ID: 895909

DOI

10.3030/895909

Project closed

EC signature date 16 April 2020

Start date 1 March 2022

End date 14 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 207 312,00

EU contribution

€ 207 312,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Giving Land Back (Giving Land Back: Property, Authority and Agrarian Change in Myanmar)

Reporting period: 2022-03-01 to 2024-02-29

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

This study interrogated land’s place in a globalized world, producing analytical frameworks and empirical insights into digital, material, and political transformations that impact contemporary struggles for land and possibilities for just futures. Rooted in over a decade of work in Myanmar, the study provided timely insights into the impacts of political violence following the 2021 military coup while also tackling global questions of agrarian change and environmental politics.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

This project produced open access peer-reviewed journal articles that explore the impacts of war and digital transformation on land politics. A special issue in the journal Antipode, co-edited by Faxon & Lund, builds on conversations begun at a workshop on Land Futures organized at the University of Copenhagen in April 2023 to explore post-agrarian questions: new inquiries that arise from the collision of existing socioecological forms, intimately tied to agriculture, and new economic and cultural realities that are reworking land relations.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Articles currently under review continue to explore the political ecology and lived experiences of revolution and digital transformation, contributing to debates in development studies, human geography, and interdisciplinary environmental science.

Rural Women's Life on the Land in the Myanmar Spring Revolution. Illustration by JC