Corinna Land


Globalisierung

Titel des Promotionsprojektes: "Struggles over Rural Futures: Contested Displacement in Paraguay"

Abstract des Promotionsprojektes

Neoliberal development and global capitalism challenge the rural lifeworlds of smallholders and landless people in Paraguay and shrink their spaces of economic and social reproduction.  However, contrary to a simplistic discourse of rural exodus, there are people who refuse to leave as well as young migrants who even return from urban destinations in Paraguay and abroad. This project seeks to understand why they struggle to stay in a place where they say themselves, “there is no future”.
The dissertation shows that there is more to return and staying put than nostalgic belonging or surrender to regimes of (im)mobility. It reconstructs how Paraguayan smallholders and landless workers attempt to shape agrarian change and negotiate spaces of possibility. Based on a multi-sited field research and led by the premises of Elias’ figurational sociology, the ethnography weaves together three research areas that are usually discussed separately: First, it explores practices and narratives of (im)mobility and asks how migrants and non-migrants negotiate belonging and the meanings and prospects of a rural vs urban way of life. Second, it looks at the relations between peasants and the neoliberal state as a contested source of hope and reveals patterns of de- and repoliticization of development. Third, it disentangles the contradictory figuration between peasants and the agribusiness, discussing the hope for jobs and growth as well as the fear of displacement both inherent in ‘soy futures’. 
These three figurations are central to understand the negotiation of viable rural futures. The thesis integrates them by developing an analytical framework that is based on the twin notions of displacement and emplacement. Detaching them from the usual association with spatial mobility, the terms are defined here more broadly as dialectical processes by which modes of social reproduction are made and unmade. Following the data, the analysis focuses on contested changes in three dimensions of these processes: Security, belonging and hope(s). Being sensitive to the role of temporality, this approach helps to analyze shifting and sometimes surprising attachments to rural spaces and, more general, to better understand the interrelations between possibilities in the here and now, imaginations of the future, and agency.
 

Vorgehen und Meilensteine:

The dissertation is based on an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2018 and 2019 in three rural Paraguayan communities and three urban migration destinations in Paraguay and Argentina.

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Kontakt:corinna.land(at)sk.hs-fulda.de

Lebenslauf:

  • Seit 01/2024 Wissenschaftliche Studiengangskoordinatorin an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Studienberatung und Internationalisierung)
  • Seit 01/2021 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Fulda Graduate Centre Social Sciences: Koordination der Internationalisierung
  • Seit 09/2017 Promotion an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft, der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Forschungsschwerpunkte: Entwicklungssoziologie, transnationale Migration, Agrarwandel und Landkonflikte. Regionaler Fokus: Lateinamerika
  • 10/2017 – 08/2020 Lehrbeauftrage an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
  • 11/2016 – 08/2017 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl Soziologie/Organisation, Migration, Mitbestimmung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • 10/2009 – 10/2016 Bachelor- und Masterstudium der Sozialwissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mit Feldforschungsaufenthalten in Nicaragua, Mexiko und den USA.

Förderung oder Stipendium
09/2016 – 11/2020 Promotionsstipendium der Tokyo Foundation
01/2019 – 04/2019 Forschungsstipendium “Sylff Research Abroad” für einen Aufenthalt in Paraguay und Argentinien
02/2014 – 04/2014 PROMOS Forschungsstipendium (DAAD) 

Bisheriger Auszeichnungen
11/2017 RUB Studierenden Preis 2017 für die Masterarbeit

Beginn des Promotionsprojektes:
seit September 2017

Erstbetreuerin

Prof. Dr.

Eva Gerharz

Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Globalisierung

Leiterin Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences

Kontakt

Prof. Dr.

Eva Gerharz

Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Globalisierung

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Vorträge und Veröffentlichungen


Publikationen

(2021) “Desperate Aspirations among Paraguayan Youths: The Renegotiation of Migration and Rural Futures”. In: Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 11 (2), https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2021.110203.


(2019): “Peripherie-Stichwort: Akkumulation durch Enteignung”. In: Peripherie 39(154/155): 292-295, DOI 10.3224/peripherie.v39i2.08.


(2019): Produktivkraft Partizipation, mit Tino Towara. Literaturstudie und Handlungsempfehlungen zum strategischen Wandel von Organisationen, im Auftrag der IG BCE. 


(2017): “Uprooted belonging: the formation of a ‘Jumma Diaspora’ in New York City”, with Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2017.1373594.


(2015): „Akteurskonstellationen in Ressourcenkonflikten“, mit Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop. Tagungsbericht in: Wissenschaft und Frieden 2015 (4): 49-50.

Vorträge

06/2022 “The State of Hope: Struggles over Rural Futures in Paraguay”: Vortrag auf der 10th CEISAL International Conference, Universität Helsinki


04/2022 “Hope and the Neoliberal State: Struggles over Rural Futures”: Vortrag im Workshop Struggles for Hope: Negotiating the Future in Times of Global Crises, Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences, Hochschule Fulda


06/2021 “The (un)making of rural homes in times of neoliberal development”: Vortrag auf dem Symposium “Making Home, Doing Belonging: Mobilities and Immobilities in Experience, Theory and Policy”, eine Kooperation von MIDEX (University of Central Lancashire) und HOMinG (University of Trento).


02/2021 „Coping with Displacement: Hope, Despair and (Im)mobility in Translocal Lifeworlds”: Vortrag auf dem “IV ISA Forum of Sociology” der International Sociological Association.


11/2018 “Dealing with Displacement: Mobile Livelihoods at Contested Agrarian Frontiers”: Poster-Präsentation auf der “7th PhD Conference on International Development”.


07/2016 “Belonging Uprooted: The Formation of a ‘Jumma Diaspora’ in New York City” (mit Eva Gerharz): Vortrag auf der “24. European Conference on South Asian Studies” der European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS).