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Transcending the rural-urban divide: emerging labor, environmental and ecological relationships in “rural” Latin America.

Sun, April 30, 12:00 to 1:45pm, TBA

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Likewise the rest of the world Latin American countries are increasingly urbanized, which raises questions of the role of agriculture and rural areas in the region. However, “urbanization” has not followed a linear trajectory (from rural to urban), but builds upon patterns of rural-urban hybrids; therefore, resulting in hybrid rural-urban environmental landscapes, hybrid subjectivities and labor engagements. What are the new subjectivities laboring the land in the spaces formally approached as “rural” areas? Are they campesinos, farmers, workers engaged in both rural and urban-type jobs (pluriactivity)? How do people relate with the land and their overall environment? What are the implications of shifting, hybrid partterns for food and agricultural relationships? The presentations deal with cases of different rural populations located in different Latin America countries and analyze/contrast how they are reshaping their labor, ecological and cultural relationships. The overall discussion points out that the conventional rural-urban divide is about to be transcended with important implications for agricultural markets, the environment and labor markets. This panel follows-up debates held in LASA 2015 and 2016 on the changing rural-urban relationship.

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