Marquardt, Kristina
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Central to the concept of landesque capital is the investment of human labour to generate or maintain landscape productivity. The gradual withdrawal of labour from farms and forests in Nepal's mountain landscapes and the resurgence of forest area is undermining landesque capital formation and subsistence agriculture. Drawing on a qualitative field study in two contrasting mid-hill villages, we take an assemblage approach to explore the combined role of labour by humans, livestock and work by nature in landscape husbandry, broadening the concept of landesque captial beyond human labour investments.
Keywords
Landesque capital; landscape productivity; assemblages; disturbance; landscape husbandry
Published in
The Journal of Peasant Studies
2025
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD
SLU Authors
Pain, Adam
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Development Studies
Human Geography
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2566147
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/144887