Agrarian Questions

Classes of Extractive Labour under Authoritarian Neoliberalism

April 4, 2025

Coşku Çelik   Natural resource extraction has emerged as one of the key rural development strategies for resource-rich countries of the Global South over the last couple of decades, leading…

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Agrarian Classes in Contemporary India: Illustrations from a South Indian Village

February 15, 2025

Madhura Swaminathan   After several decades of economic growth, India remains an economy with a rural population of over 840 million people, the majority of whose livelihoods are linked to…

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Climate Breakdown, Green Transitions, Food and the Land Question

January 29, 2025

Benjamin Selwyn   The land (or agrarian) question in the 21st century will become increasingly bound up with the climate question and the broader environment question. In the contemporary context…

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Egypt and North Africa: The determining context of imperialist interests for agrarian change

December 19, 2024

Ray Bush   Agriculture in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) is shaped by family farming.  Rural underdevelopment is determined by struggles over land access and ownership and devastating…

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Agrarian Questions in and between Brazil and China

November 29, 2024

Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira   Discussion of “agrarian questions” usually take as their point of reference a “classic” debate within Eurocentric Marxist traditions around the turn of the 20th…

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