 My name is Mark Jackson and I'm pleased to be invited to give one of the keynote presentations to open the conference, the fair transitions and the politics of land institutions and imaginaries for inclusive futures conference in Utrecht next week. And I'm keen with my talk to address some of the key questions that the conference is raising, particularly those around finding ways to make transitions and land transitions fair and inclusive. My questions I think are going to be those of the conference, which are in particular who's setting the terms of what counts as inclusion and inclusion into what are the institutions and imaginaries within which diverse constituencies are being included fit for purpose for the ecological and social environmental and economic challenges facing our planetary future. I'm not an land transitions or land governance specialist. I'm a theorist of post colonial and decolonial geographies with an interest in political ecology. And I'm a human geographer so I come to these questions slightly from the outside and outside looking in, which I see as a strength for a keynote in the sense that I can perhaps ask questions from this perspective of the outside. And to what I hope in my opening remarks to pose a few provocations for the conference to think with and I'll be posing three provocations. One around how land is conceptualized and asking questions about whose imaginaries and whose knowledges are used to conceptualize land and the politics of land. The second is that I would like to offer a provocation that land transition work is fundamentally the work of freedom and freedom building through place making and place building. And the third provocation I'd like to pose to the conference is that in an effort to diversify and pluralize approaches to the politics of land. We need to shift a governance approach to one of what's called pluriversality, where the politics of land and land governance is organized around a principle of incommensurability, rather than a politics of commensurability to the institutional practices with which we now live, manage and negotiate. So with those three provocations I hope to sort of both touch on the questions of the conference as well as offer suggestions for thinking otherwise. And my participation with the conference which I'm looking forward to is to learn more about land transitions and land governance and the politics of ecology in our precarious and deeply challenging present.