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Launch of a new journal on the Agrarian History of Latin America
Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL) is an academic journal of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria de América Latina (CEHAL), an autonomous institution established in Santiago de Chile in…
Read MoreMarxist methods corner
This space on our website is intended to be a place where researchers in and around the Marxist tradition can critically discuss problematic issues in methodology and research methods. We…
Read MoreThe Bernstein & Byres Prize in Agrarian Change for 2017
We are pleased to announce that R. Ramakumar, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has been awarded the 2017 Bernstein & Byres Prize for his article ‘Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India’.
Read MoreInternational Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy 9th Annual Conference
Sessions of the Agrarian Change Working Group at the Promotion of Political Economy Annual Conference.
Read MoreBook review of Nandini Sundar’s The Burning Forest
This post is written by Christian Lund who is Professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance, at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, at Copenhagen University.
Read MoreThe Bernstein and Byres Prize in Agrarian Change for 2016
The ‘Bernstein & Byres Prize’ has been awarded since 2008 by the Journal of Agrarian Change (JAC) to the best article published in that year.
Read MoreBook Review of Bina Agarwal’s Gender Challenges
An activist scholar and former President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Bina Agarwal is best known for her (1994) monumental A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.
Read MoreBook Review of Jan Breman’s Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market
This is a book of impressive scope. It tells the story of coffee cultivation on Java under Dutch colonialism from its beginnings in the early 1600s through to the end of the notorious Cultivation System in the late 1800s.
Read MoreRethinking Agrarian Transitions and Left Politics in India
Free Issue of Journal of Agrarian Change to mark 50 years since Naxalbari This post is written by Jens Lerche, Reader in Agrarian and Labour Studies in the Department of Development…
Read MoreNotice – London workshop on Chinese labour regimes, 22 June
The ongoing wave of strikes in China is the latest manifestation of a dynamic that can be summed up in the phrase: where capital goes, labor-capital conflict shortly follows.
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