Posts by Amod
Beyond the Household
PAULINE E. PETERS In response to Carmen Diana Deere’s blog in 2020 on this website, I made the comment that critiques of interviewing only the head of the household in…
Read MoreAgrarian Change Seminars | Spring 2024
The Journal of Agrarian Change has been organizing an annual Agrarian Change Seminar Series since 2008. Like the previous two editions, this year too the series is organized as a…
Read MoreThe Bernstein & Byres Prize 2022
CARLA GRAS, KEES JANSEN, JENS LERCHE, JONATHAN PATTENDEN, HELENA PÉREZ NIÑO, SHREYA SINHA & FORREST ZHANG We are pleased to announce that Kyla Sankey has been awarded the 2022 Bernstein & Byres Prize for…
Read MoreA Methodological Contribution to the Marxian Class Analysis of Peasant Differentiation
PARAMJIT SINGH AND MUKESH KUMAR In the face of the growing hegemony of neo-populist positions in agrarian studies, Marxian analysis needs to remain alert to the concrete dynamics of…
Read MoreBook Review: Ramesh Sunam’s Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal
FRASER SUGDEN One of the defining features of agrarian change amongst the peasantry in the last two decades is the rising importance of labour migration to supplement fragile livelihoods.…
Read MoreBook Review: Neeladri Bhattacharya’s The Great Agrarian Conquest
MUHAMMAD ALI JAN Neeladri Bhattacharya’s monograph is a genealogy of the “agrarian” as a colonial project and an account of its transgression through rural agency, all rolled into an…
Read MoreAQs Shorts: Gerardo Otero
In this edition of the AQs Shorts series, Gerardo Otero elaborates on the concept of the neoliberal diet as a prism to analyse broader political and economic processes. He discusses…
Read MoreBook Review: Rebecca Tarlau’s Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
CLIFF WELCH Rebecca Tarlau’s new book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land shows how the MST “transformed Brazilian education.” The book, which began as Tarlau’s 2014 University of California doctoral dissertation…
Read MoreCall for papers | IIPPE 2023: Agrarian Change Working Group
IIPPE 2023 Annual Conference, 6-8 September 2023, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Call for papers and panel proposals: Agrarian Change Working Group A sense of urgency animates the…
Read MoreBook Review: Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás’ Capitalism and the Sea
MADS BARBESGAARD Capitalism and the Sea takes the reader on a wide-ranging history of capitalist development and argues that ‘the Earth’s separation into land and sea has significant consequences’…
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