Landscape justice, place and quality of life in ‘archipelagic’ worlds

Legal geography I: Everyday law

“…Unanimity is, however, possible only in homogenous societies that seldom exist and therefore, legal pluralism often involves conflicts. Olwig (2022) notes how processes like privatization or unjust governance have detrimental effects on communities and their land use if they cause the loss of customary rights. Olwig interprets customary rights not so much as rights to the land, but rather as shared use rights in the land.…”

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

“…Landscape justice involves thinking critically about the formation of knowledge and questions whose knowledge is valued and asserts that attending to power in landscape is an ethical as much as a scientific endeavour (see Löfgren, 2020). Landscape justice is understood as ‘people’s emplaced right to landscape as a common good of importance to their quality of life’ (Olwig, 2022: 717). Responding to this concept of landscape justice in the Argentine Dry Chaco, Vallejos et al (2020) argue that global food demand not only alters landscapes at local levels but also affects forms of life and the culture of rural life, while at the same time increasing inequalities across multiple landscapes.…”