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Feminist political ecologies of agrarian technologies: knowing the digital differently The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ingrid L. Nelson, Hilary Oliva Faxon, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers
As digital technologies become increasingly ubiquitous on farms, we need to reconsider relationships between technology and agriculture. Critical agrarian studies offers some analyses of digital te...
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Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Clemence Rusenga, Gernot Klantschnig, Neil Carrier, Simon Howell
This article examines the emerging legal cannabis sector in Zimbabwe since 2018, which focuses on medicinal and industrial cannabis with unlicenced uses remaining criminalised, as well as its impli...
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Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next? The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Wendy W. Wolford, Ben White, Ian Scoones, Ruth Hall, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras
In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and conferences to gen...
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Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ida Forbriger, Felix Anderl
Large-scale land acquisitions harm small-scale farmers in rural Eastern Germany, increasingly prompting political attention and denunciation of the phenomenon as ‘land grabbing'. However, counter-f...
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The indebted woman: kinship, sexuality and capitalism The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 John Harriss
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sagari R. Ramdas, Michel P. Pimbert
The Andhra Pradesh Zero Budget Natural Farming project was implemented by India’s State of Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and renamed AP Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) in 2020. APCNF is recognis...
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The end of poverty The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiuli Xu
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Land rush The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
Studies and debates on the issue of land grabs have generated multiple terms and concepts that are used loosely and interchangeably, such as large-scale land acquisitions, land grab, land deals, la...
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Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Ana Victoria Portocarrero Lacayo
This article examines the work of ‘Fundación Entre Mujeres’ (FEM), a feminist peasant collective organized in cooperatives and working on food sovereignty, agro-ecology, and the economic, ideologic...
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Exploring food sovereignty among Amazonian peoples: Brazil's national school feeding programme in Oriximiná, Pará state The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Ítala Nepomuceno, Maurício Torres, Monique Medeiros
We present an empirically-grounded exploration of food sovereignty among Brazilian Amazonian forest-proximate peoples, revealing five dimensions bound together by autonomy: family farming, women's ...
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Development in spirit: religious transformation and everyday politics in Vietnam’s highlands The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A repeasantisation in Poland? New farmers, the peasant mode of production and their situations in local communities The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Aleksandra Bilewicz, Ruta Śpiewak
This article discusses Poland's new farmers: people who have left the city to engage in agriculture and urban people with a ruralbackground who return to their villages to start farming. We analyse...
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The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Madeleine Fairbairn, Emily Reisman
The agri-food tech sector is touted for its potential to disrupt established industry. Yet research reveals that incumbent agribusinesses are buying their way into the sector through startup invest...
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The system is killing us land grabbing, the green economy and ecological conflict The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Carlos Tornel
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How Agricultural Commercialization Impacts Migrants' Land Tenure: Unpacking Displacement and Tenurial Adaptations in Ghana's Agricultural Landscape The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Selorm Kobla Kugbega
Following green revolution ideologies, smallholder commercialization is promoted as a pathway to African economic transformation. Nonetheless, polices that incentivize commercial production in Ghan...
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The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Angus Lyall, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Studies often suggest that the thrust of peasant politics is the advancement of autonomous family farming. Such studies seem remote in rural places where migration, pluriactivity, and non-agrarian ...
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Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alexander Liebman
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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Agri-bolsonarism: a movement led by agricultural elites and far-right politicians in Brazil The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Caio Pompeia
As the balance of forces in Brazil shifted toward conservatism in the 2010s, regional agricultural elites and Jair Bolsonaro formed a political-economic movement. This article analyses the constitu...
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Covert cultivars and clandestine communities: rice and the making of an Afrodescendant peasantry in Maranhão, Brazil The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Judith A. Carney, Richard N. Rosomoff
Rice is a keystone crop of the peasant farming system of Maranhão, Brazil. Its origins can be traced to the food fields of fugitive slave communities that proliferated throughout the Amazonic front...
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Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Alexander Panez, Jorge Olea
Chilean fruit exports grew 252% between 1975 and 2016. This paper aims to analyze agribusiness’s readjustment strategies to face the socio-ecological impacts of the Capitalocene. For this purpose, ...
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The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Fernanda Rojas-Marchini
States with colonial legacies invest significant resources to control Indigenous lands. This article examines how state land control operates in the creation of conservation law in Chile. It analyz...
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Seed activism: patent politics and litigation in the Global South The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Birgit Müller
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Index insurance and the moral economy of pastoral risk management in Mongolia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Daniel J. Murphy, Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo
Rural livelihoods worldwide are being transformed by the increasing financialization of agricultural production. Microlending and the deeper integration of production cycles in commodity markets ar...
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Landless The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Amod Shah
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Threatening dystopias: the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jessie MacInnis
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jop Koopman
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Expressions of the political: an exploration of women’s infra-politics in artisanal mines in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Allison Furniss
Through an analysis of women who work in artisanal mining in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article demonstrates that women are active agents in natural resource extraction in the r...
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Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Paula Escribano
In Spain, small-scale agroecological production has emerged in response to the current environmental and food crisis. However, the lack of a protective legal framework, multiple sanctions and the p...
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Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Nathan F. Sayre
Debates about modern beef production suffer from a major historical blind spot. For over a century, the feedlot relied on a closed nutrient loop to sustain soil fertility in the United States Corn ...
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The corporate food regime and Lebanon: Machgara and adverse incorporation The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Giuliano Martiniello, Julia Kassem
Despite low productivity in Lebanon’s agricultural economy, neglected for finance and service sectors, land and labor potential are very high. Literature on agrarian and food crises in Lebanon rema...
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Historicising sustainable livestock intensification and animal genetic improvement in Africa: towards a decolonial multispecies climate justice The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Youjin B. Chung
This article examines the discourse and practice of sustainable livestock intensification in Africa, using Tanzania as an analytic case. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, I argue the g...
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Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene: early colonial monocropping, subaltern agrobiodiversity, and aridity in Andalus (Spain) and Coastal Peru The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Karl S. Zimmerer, Ramzi M. Tubbeh, Martha G. Bell
The long-term (AD 1300–1800), multi-scale interactions of monocropping and subaltern agri-food systems of Andalus (Spain) and coastal Peru reveal the entangled transformations of the Plantationocen...
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Elite summits amplify Africa’s climate catastrophes The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Patrick Bond
Prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference (hosted in Dubai) there were summits of global, so-called ‘multipolar’ and continental-African elites. An assessme...
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Accumulation through destabilization: manufacturing indigenous consent for industrial mining in Latin America The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Craig A. Johnson, Teresa Kramarz, Matthew McBurney, Yojana Miraya Oscco
This article explores the consolidation of industrial mining in Latin America, documenting the strategies that mining companies have used to deepen and widen extractive frontiers in Ecuador and Per...
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Another palm is possible: small-scale palm oil farmers exercising autonomy in northeast Colombia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Angela Serrano
This paper investigates how some small-scale palm oil growers in northeast Colombia have managed to exercise partial autonomy from global markets while still participating in them. By comparing the...
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Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Livia Perosino
Because of the advanced state of capitalist dynamics’ penetration in agriculture, Jordan constitutes an enlightening and overlooked case study. Shaped by a history of war, dependency and imperialis...
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Queen of the fields in wartime: What can Ukrainian corn tell us about the resilience of the global food system? The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Natalia Mamonova, Susanne Wengle, Vitalii Dankevych
This article examines the corn-driven boom of Ukraine’s agriculture, the damage wrought by Russia’s war, and the adaptation strategies by Ukrainian corporate agribusinesses. It thereby contributes ...
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Climate change beyond technocracy: citizenship and drought practices in the Indian Himalayas The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Karine Gagné, Stanzin Chostak
Climate knowledge production and climate change adaptation are dominated by technocratic narratives. Where climate change intersects with institutional structures outside contexts of formal interve...
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Correction The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Fadia Panosetti, Laurence Roudart
This article explores the relationship between rural livelihood transformations and the land struggle in the West Bank between 1979 and the Oslo Accords. During this period, the Israeli adoption of...
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Making soil in the Plantationocene The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Andrew Ofstehage
Based on 14 months of ethnographic research, this paper analyzes soil management within the plantation model of farmingin order to understand the extent to which life on large-scale monocultural fa...
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Farmer-herder relations, land governance and the national conflict in Mali The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Eva Hansen
Farmer-herder conflicts have been long standing in Mali’s rural areas. It has been shown that it is mostly herders who support and join jihadist groups. By analysing land regimes in farmer-herder c...
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Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Georges Flexor, Karina Yoshie Kato, Sergio Pereira Leite
The article analyzes the interrelationships between international commodity markets and food security in Brazil. Through bibliographical research, document analysis, and data visualization, this pa...
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Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sinem Kavak
This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it c...
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From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Anselmo Matusse
This research conducted between June 2016 and April 2018 employs ethnographic research, archival sources, and observations to reveal the emergence of the Plantationocene in Mozambique's Lugela dist...
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Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jonathan Goodhand, Teo Ballvé, Patrick Meehan
A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play...
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Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Corinne Lamain
Climate security, albeit highly contested, is moving beyond the discursive realm into policies and practices that implicate the control of land, water and forests. Through a systematic literature r...
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Real estate oligarchs: elites and the urbanization of the land question in El Salvador The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Julio Gutiérrez
This article explores the role of business elites in the conversion of rural landscapes into urban real estate in El Salvador. By analyzing elites’ imaginaries of development and strategies of disp...
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Healing Grounds: climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Walter Alberto Pengue
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2024)
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Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Baran Karsak
This article studies avocado theft in southern Turkey’s peasant communities, where a significant avocado market formed between 2010 and 2020. In the context of the country’s neoliberalized agricult...
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Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Franziska Marfurt, Tobias Haller, Patrick Bottazzi
Participatory guarantee systems (PGS) are locally-embedded guarantee systems that allegedly empower local smallholders. Although PGS are often implemented in the realm of labour-intensive agroecolo...
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A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, Luis Castillo, Sebastián Cristancho
ABSTRACT This article analyzes alternative development coalitions, their contradictions and complexities, and how they promoted a steeply unequal agrarian change through illicit crop substitution. We zoom into two paramilitary-controlled territories in Colombia. We show that those programs counted with significant support from, and were actually driven by, long coalitions that included regional and
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The necropolitics of expendability: migrant farm workers during COVID-19 The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Panagiota Kotsila, Lucía Argüelles
COVID-19 has made visible and deepened inequalities globally, while also manifesting the vital role of functional food, health, and care systems in a context of strong socio-ecological interdepende...
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‘Feeding the world, byte by byte’: emergent imaginaries of data productivism The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Matthew Canfield
Recent scholarship has shed light on how data-driven food systems may entrench productivist and neo-productivist visions of ‘feeding the world.’ In this paper, we examine the narratives and institu...
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Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Bhavneet Walia, Rashmi Gangamma, Anna Zoodsma
In this paper, we assess factors that underlie the relationship between gardening and improved mental health and food security outcomes among displaced people. Drawing on a mixed method study of re...
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Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 50, No. 7, 2023)
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Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Frances Thomson
ABSTRACT The illicit coca economy has become a bulwark for smallholder farming in Colombia. This article helps explain why. Analysis of the social relations surrounding coca production in one of the country’s most important coca-producing municipalities shows that capitalist market imperatives are weak within this economy. Pressures to increase productivity are muted by fluid access to land, non-interest-bearing
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The Plantationocene as analytical concept: a forum for dialogue and reflection The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sophie Chao, Wendy Wolford, Andrew Ofstehage, Shalmali Guttal, Euclydes Gonçalves, Fernanda Ayala
ABSTRACT This forum for dialogue and reflection invites empirical and theoretical inquiries that critically interrogate plantations in their myriad forms through the conceptual analytic of the Plantationocene. In doing so, we understand, and invite attention to, the Plantationocene, both as a key for interpreting histories of local to global development and for understanding the role of plantationlogics
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We Story the Land: Exploring Mi'kmaq food sovereignty, Indigenous law and treaty relations The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Martha Stiegman, Sherry Pictou
This article explores the relationship between Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the resurgence of Indigenous law through an examination of the Mi'kmaq concept of Netukulimk. We present a case study ...
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Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Beth Prosnitz
A common misconception about women landowners in Nepal is that they do not control the lands they own. In this paper, I focus on women landowners' land-title loans. What does women’s accrual of mon...