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Critical Agrarian Studies


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Critical Agrarian Studies is the new accompanying book series to the Journal of Peasant Studies. It publishes selected special issues of the journal and, occasionally, books that offer major contributions in the field of critical agrarian studies. The book series builds on the long and rich history of the journal and its former accompanying book series, the Library of Peasant Studies (1973-2008) which had published several important monographs and special-issues-as-books.

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Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford
November 30, 2023

Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in ...

Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World

Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ben White
September 25, 2023

The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and...

Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2

Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2

1st Edition

Edited By Marc Edelman
June 30, 2021

This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad ...

New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

1st Edition

Edited By Ryan Isakson
June 30, 2021

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods ...

De-centring Land Grabbing Southeast Asia Perspectives on Agrarian-Environmental Transformations

De-centring Land Grabbing: Southeast Asia Perspectives on Agrarian-Environmental Transformations

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Vandergeest, Laura Schoenberger
June 30, 2020

Southeast Asia has been portrayed as a key site in the global land grab. Featuring leading scholars in the field, this collection critically examines the nature and extent of land grabbing in Southeast Asia, and seeks to locate this phenomena in broader agrarian and environmental transitions (AET)....

Agrarian Marxism

Agrarian Marxism

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Levien, Michael Watts, Yan Hairong
April 01, 2019

This comprehensive volume advances heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. While Marxists have long criticized ‘populists’ for ignoring capitalism and class, populists have charged Marxists with historical determinism. This ongoing debate has...

An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights

An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Ho
February 14, 2019

From a neo-liberal, neo-classical paradigm, secure, formal and private property rights are crucial to fostering sustained development. Institutions that fail to respond to shifting socio-economic opportunities are thus forced to make new arrangements. The enigma is posed by developments on the ...

Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

1st Edition

Edited By Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford
February 14, 2019

When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions ‘from below’ to ...

Gender and Generation in Southeast Asian Agrarian Transformations

Gender and Generation in Southeast Asian Agrarian Transformations

1st Edition

Edited By Clara Mi Young Park, Ben White
June 04, 2018

The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations, whether in the form of large-scale corporate land acquisition or other forms of penetration of commodity economy...

Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

1st Edition

Edited By Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Susanna B. Hecht
October 26, 2017

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food–feed–fuel production that underpins the agribusiness–conservationist discourse of "land ...

Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

1st Edition

Edited By Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins, Rudo Gaidzanwa
May 25, 2017

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following ...

Rural Politics in Contemporary China

Rural Politics in Contemporary China

1st Edition

Edited By Emily T. Yeh, Kevin O'Brien, Jingzhong Ye
December 10, 2015

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, ...

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