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.
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
Edited
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? ...
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Saturnino Borras Jr.
July 21, 2010
Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and ...