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‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Alexander A. Dunlap, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bojana Novaković
Based on conversations with 38 interview respondents, four focus groups and participant observation, this article examines intensive solar energy development in east Riverside County, California. F...
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Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Joan Martínez-Alier, Goutam Karmakar
Joan Martínez-Alier and Goutam Karmakar engage in a conversation where they examine the discourses of the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, political ecology, and the Entropocene, exploring environme...
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Indigenous Peoples as resources and resource makers in Peruvian Amazonia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Giancarlo Rolando, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
Environmentalist organizations promote co-management arrangements as a means of protecting forests and moving away from predatory forms of Indigenous-settler interactions. In Peru, the state and In...
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Laboring for light: energy unfreedoms and freedom dreams of solar labor in Ghana The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Ryan Stock, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
The Kaleo Lawra solar plant was built for climate mitigation and fighting energy poverty in the economically poor region of the Upper West. Within Ghana's solar value chain, value is created throug...
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The relational state and local struggles in the mapping of land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Nanang Indra Kurniawan, Ståle Angen Rye
The article investigates how state-initiated participatory mapping, with the aim of legalizing Indigenous land, has implications for peasants' and Indigenous people’s struggles for control over lan...
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Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Tammi Jonas, Catie Gressier
Since settlement, colonial values of productivity and improvement have transformed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country into a site of agricultural extraction. We examine the nascent peasa...
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Rural social movement strategies confronting global food crises: ‘overcoming the crisis of capitalism or exiting altogether from capitalism in crisis?’ The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Nora McKeon
This essay examines the impacts of global food crises on rural social movements (RSMs) and recalls the context of the capitalism in crisis within which their resistance efforts are situated. It rev...
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Rights of nature, an ornamental legal framework: water extractivism and backbone rivers with rights in Colombia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 María Ximena González-Serrano
Rivers have been at the centre of judicialization processes that have forged post-human legal experiments, gaining new rights, personhood, and legal agency. This article interrogates river rights j...
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Sweet deal, bitter landscape: gender politics and liminality in Tanzania’s new enclosures The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Dhouha Djerbi
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Leon Brenya Yeboah, Abubakari Abdulai, Frank Kwaku Agyei, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke
This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an impo...
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Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jessica Milgroom, Priscilla Claeys
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the first 13 years of conservation-forced resettlement negotiations in the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. It documents four strategies used by th...
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Racial capitalism and women’s horticultural labour in Senegal: neo-housewifisation and the micro-politics of paternalism The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Rama Salla Dieng
The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after the land rush. Based on an intersectional feminist analysis of three firms, the study found that workers’ subjugation ...
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The agricultural dilemma The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Tanya Matthan
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2024)
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Counter-hegemonic resistance on the extractive frontier in Peru: exploring the legal-political nexus The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Peter Leys, Malayna Raftopoulos
This article examines how power is permanently contested in the extractive frontier, forcing extractive investments to re-accommodate or to retreat. Using the Chuschi mining conflict as a case stud...
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The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Frances Thomson, Patrick Meehan, Jonathan Goodhand
This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from ot...
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Scholar activism and land struggles The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Juan Wahren
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2024)
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Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 McKenzie F. Johnson, Luz A. Rodríguez, Manuela Quijano Hoyos
We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by tr...
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The ‘agropopulist shift’ toward authoritarianism: the conflict between the MAS government and coca growers from the Bolivian Yungas The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Daniel Ortiz Gallego
Progressive agrarian populist movements might walk the path toward authoritarianism under concrete hegemonic struggles, social class relations, and state-society dynamics. I propose the notion of t...
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The open veins of the Amazon: rethinking extractivism and infrastructure in extractive frontiers The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Roger Merino
Scholars often approach the Amazon to explain the materiality of resource extraction in mining, oil, and agribusinesses. This region has been less used for theorizing the different scales and dimen...
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Feminist political ecologies of agrarian technologies: knowing the digital differently The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next? The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 4.4) 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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Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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The indebted woman: kinship, sexuality and capitalism The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 John Harriss
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 5, 2024)
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A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiuli Xu
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2024)
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Land rush The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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Exploring food sovereignty among Amazonian peoples: Brazil's national school feeding programme in Oriximiná, Pará state The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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A repeasantisation in Poland? New farmers, the peasant mode of production and their situations in local communities The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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Development in spirit: religious transformation and everyday politics in Vietnam’s highlands The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2024)
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The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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How Agricultural Commercialization Impacts Migrants' Land Tenure: Unpacking Displacement and Tenurial Adaptations in Ghana's Agricultural Landscape The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 system is killing us: land grabbing, the green economy and ecological conflict The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Carlos Tornel
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2024)
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The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Birgit Müller
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2024)
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Landless The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jop Koopman
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2024)
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Index insurance and the moral economy of pastoral risk management in Mongolia The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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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Accumulation through destabilization: manufacturing indigenous consent for industrial mining in Latin America The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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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Elite summits amplify Africa’s climate catastrophes The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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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 4.4) 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 4.4) 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 4.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Making soil in the Plantationocene The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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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Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance The Journal of Peasant Studies (IF 4.4) 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...