Published Online: November 2025
Authors: Kristina Marquardt, Dil Khatri and Adam Pain
Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2025.2566147?utm_source=researchgate.net&medium=article#abstract
Abstract: Central to the concept of landesque capital is the investment of human labour to generate or maintain landscape productivity. The gradual withdrawal of labour from farms and forests in Nepal’s mountain landscapes and the resurgence of forest area is undermining landesque capital formation and subsistence agriculture. Drawing on a qualitative field study in two contrasting mid-hill villages, we take an assemblage approach to explore the combined role of labour by humans, livestock and work by nature in landscape husbandry, broadening the concept of landesque captial beyond human labour investments.