Book 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 MoreAQs Shorts: Noaman Ali/Yahya Aftab
Our first AQs Shorts in 2023 features Noaman Ali & Yahya Aftab who discuss broader trends of agrarian development in northern Pakistan (Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). They point out to 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’…
Read MoreReview Essay: Contesting total extractivism
THOMAS F. PURCELL Within agrarian political economy, extractivism has emerged as a key concept to grapple with a whole host of politically urgent themes such as ecological destruction, global…
Read MoreThe Bernstein & Byres Prize 2021
LIAM CAMPLING, CARLA GRAS, JENS LERCHE, BRIDGET O’LAUGHLIN, CARLOS OYA, JONATHAN PATTENDEN & HELENA PÉREZ NIÑO We are pleased to announce that Muchtar Habibi has been awarded the 2021 Bernstein & Byres Prize for…
Read MoreAQs Shorts: Leandro-Vergara Camus/Alice Soares Guimarães/Kees Jansen
This AQs Shorts interview draws on our Special Issue on Autonomy in Agrarian Studies, Politics and Movements, edited by Leandro Vergara-Camus and Kees Jansen. The two editors and a contributor…
Read MoreBook Review: Andrew Flachs’ Cultivating Knowledge
JOSTEIN JAKOBSEN Few questions have been more contentious to scholars, activists and broader publics concerned with agrarian issues than the rise of biotechnology—genetically modified (GM) seeds in particular. Among…
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