No Kinship Without Acknowledgement: Challenging Rural-Urban Disconnects.
2024. Kin City. Berliner Gazette.
Artwork: Colnate Group, 2024 (cc by nc)
Abstract
During colonial-capitalist urbanization cities emerged as the engines of growth, so it is not surprising that in the face of the ecological polycrisis, the attention of the media, business, and the state is focused on metropolitan spaces, neglecting the living conditions of rural people, who still make up about 40 percent of the world’s population and in many ways provide the resources for the urban engines of growth. This urban-rural divide is particularly problematic in the case of palm oil plantations in Indonesia, as Tania Li shows in her article for the “Kin City” series.