Article by Kasia Paprocki on the agrarian question of climate change

We are excited to share the publication of “The Agrarian Question of Climate Change,” co-authored by Kasia Paprocki and James McCarthy, in Progress in Human Geography (Volume 48, Issue 6).

In this article, Paprocki and McCarthy revisit the classical “agrarian question,” which asked how capitalist development reshaped agriculture at the turn of the 20th century, and reframe it for the contemporary era of climate change. They argue that “the agrarian question of the twenty-first century is the agrarian question of climate change,” calling attention to how adaptation, mitigation, and ongoing capitalist processes are transforming agrarian lives, livelihoods, landscapes, and politics.

By foregrounding agrarian dynamics, the authors emphasize the centrality of rural and agricultural transformations to broader social, political, and economic change in the time of climate crisis. The article contributes key insights for scholars of political ecology, agrarian studies, and climate change, offering lessons on the uneven and often contradictory pathways of development and adaptation.

Read the full article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325241269701