Critical Agrarian Studies
About the Book Series
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.
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
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
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
1st Edition
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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
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)....
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'
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 ...
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
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, ...
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
1st Edition
Edited
By James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones
November 10, 2014
Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called ...
New Frontiers of Land Control
1st Edition
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By Nancy Peluso, Christian Lund
January 16, 2014
Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century. ‘Exclusion’, ‘alienation’, ‘expropriation’, ‘dispossession’, and ‘violence’ animate histories of land use, property rights, and territories. More recently, agrarian ...
The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones
February 13, 2013
This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? ...