Journal of Peasant Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peasant Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moving Crops and the Scales of History172
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule172
Scholar activism and land struggles107
Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China82
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city60
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology54
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core50
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh48
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India46
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture44
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements44
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot39
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh37
Land rush37
Subjects of the sun: solar energy in the shadows of racial capitalism37
Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border36
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia32
Labors of division: global capitalism and the emergence of the peasant in Colonial Panjab30
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile29
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China29
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance 26
At the margins of the global market: making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colombia At the margins of the global market: making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colo26
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?26
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts25
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas25
The end: Marx, Darwin, and the natural history of the climate crisis24
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey24
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions22
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New21
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan20
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests20
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present20
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia19
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside19
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism19
Correction18
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms18
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks17
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia17
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies17
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region17
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador16
Evaluating the adoption of the Round Table on Responsible Soy in Mato Grosso, Brazil16
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance16
Seed Stories, film. Written and directed by Chitrangada Choudhury, 2024/India/colour/42min/Odiya, Kui, English (with English subtitles)16
Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India Genetically modified democracy: transgenetic crops in contemporary India , by Aniket Aga, Yale U16
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique15
Violent conflict, capitalism and insurgent food sovereignty15
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India15
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place15
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions14
The second contradiction of capitalism14
Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies14
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement14
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin14
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation14
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation14
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon14
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan13
Global pesticide complex13
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone13
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)13
We Rise for Our Land We Rise for Our Land , Directed by Kurt Otabenga Orderson, South Africa/colour/48 min/English. Boaventura Monjane, Azania Rizing Productions and the13
Global libidinal economy12
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view12
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta12
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system12
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia12
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation12
Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa12
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India11
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice11
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions11
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala11
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar11
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture11
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan11
China and global food security11
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change10
Handbook on alternative global development10
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction10
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China10
Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa , by Laur10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland10
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico10
Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany10
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today10
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography10
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives9
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition9
A missing link in the agrarian question: the role of ground-rent and landed property in capital accumulation. The case of Argentina (1993-2019)9
Correction9
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush9
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war9
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India8
The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile8
James Scott’s anarchism8
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies8
‘Our struggle is for humanity’: a conversation with Morgan Ody, general coordinator of La Via Campesina International, on land, politics, peasant life and a vision for hope in our changing world8
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–20208
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal8
Agrarian transition in small open societies. The case of Caribbean economies8
Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.8
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*8
Playing with time: the temporalities of agrarian intensification under climatic instability8
Can states be decolonized? Indigenous peoples and radical constitutional reform in Bolivia8
Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar7
Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below7
Travelling rivers, mapping movements. Counter-mapping and translocal river defense networks7
Changing what it means to work on the land: agroecology and agrarian change in Malawi7
The incumbent advantage: corporate power in agri-food tech7
From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems7
Decolonizing African agriculture: food security, agroecology, and the need for radical transformation7
Pushing accountability boundaries for transnational land investments7
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana7
The politics of land reform and peasant autonomy in Sri Lanka7
Lineages of the ‘labour question’: from ‘subaltern workers’ to ‘classes of labour’ in the Punjab canal colonies7
Implementing the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests from the working with people model: lessons from Colombia and Guatemala7
Storming the heavens: peasants and revolution in China, 1925–1949 viewed through a Marxist lens7
Land and water grabs, militarized development and agrarian resistance in the Sahel7
Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains7
Land, gender and labor in antinarcotic policies: voluntary substitution of illegalized coca crops and gender inequalities in rural Colombia7
Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community6
The struggle for land in coastal Ecuador during the PAIS alliance pink-tide governments: trapped in patronage, corruption, and violence6
Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective6
An elusive common6
Titans of industrial agriculture: how a few giant corporations came to dominate the farm sector and why it matters6
Who stands to gain? How Moldovans engage with policies promoting the migration-rural development nexus6
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics6
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey6
Contested mangroves: land struggles and the gendered and racialized geographies of climate change6
Social differentiation of the peasantry (Marxist)6
Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through Indigenous territorial struggles6
Anticipatory ruination6
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles6
Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?6
Renegotiating patriarchy: gender, agency and the Bangladesh Paradox5
Rightless rurality: the illegalization of Myanmar migrant laborers in Thailand’s agro-industry5
‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco5
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization , edited by R. Ramakuma5
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution5
Natural farming for whom? Environmental justice and state-led chemical-free farming promotion in India5
The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy5
Territorialized climate change adaptation analysis: lessons from the Central Valleys of Chile5
The agrochemical complex of China: historical, global and intersectoral connections5
Barons: money, power, and the corruption of the American food industry5
Monocrops5
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles: a systematic qualitative review of literature on post-FTLRP Zimbabwe5
Forest lost: producing green capitalism in the Brazilian amazon5
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think5
Debt, reproductive labour and social reproduction in contracted palm oil production5
Women in agribusiness amid crises of social reproduction: the case of women workers at the Greenhouse, Turkey5
Social contagion and microbiological class war in China5
Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands5
A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia4
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a laudatio4
Deepening the ecological agrarian question: how ecologies of production shape capital accumulation, subsumption and producer agency in the Thai Nam Hom Coconut Industry4
Tiny engines of abundance: a history of peasant productivity & repression4
From denouncing dry streams to a river of resistance: the role of law in contesting hydropower in the La Miel River, Colombia4
The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia4
Pharmaceuticals in the Capitalocene: on the metabolic exploitation of life and bodies in the capitalist world-ecology4
Becoming a young farmer: young people's pathways into farming: Canada, China, India, and Indonesia4
“The land needs a master”: agrarian ideals and settler realities in the Russian Far East4
The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below4
Saving a rainforest and losing the world: conservation and displacement in the global tropics4
Remaindered Life4
JPS at 50: some personal reminiscences4
Dispossession4
Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection3
Post-agrarian land defense: rethinking resistance from the rural margins of Palestine3
Pastoralism and food sovereignty: struggles for land, livelihoods and recognition3
Do laws provoke or prevent green grabbing? A systematic review3
‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert3
Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?3
Violence hidden in plain sight: pin-prick land grabbing in Romania3
Between necessity and compulsion: opium poppy cultivation and the exigencies of survival in Badakhshan, Afghanistan3
The farm as digital factory: controlling labour and nature in digital agriculture3
Up in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics to confront climate change3
Sugar, the plantation, and the state in Tanzania3
Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists3
Territory grabbing: agrarian perspectives on the unmaking and reclaiming of Palestinian sovereignty3
Governing after FARC: environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia3
Living standards and land – longitudinal village level perspectives from five African countries: broad based improvements amid rural differentiation3
From farm to force: how the 2023–2024 agricultural protests reversed the post-exceptionalist common agricultural policy3
Valuing forests, but not the labor that protects them: international payments for ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon3
Dispossession by archive: contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia3
Making soil in the Plantationocene3
‘The food sovereignty movement is not part of my life, it is my life’: from local to international, reflecting on Korean women peasant organizing – a conversation3
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and critical agrarian studies3
Landscapes of homesickness: mobilizing affect for rural return in Xi Jinping era, China3
Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements3
Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia3
Abolitionist visions: finance and freedom in the post-Civil War US South3
Producing nature-based solutions: infrastructural nature and agrarian change in San Martín, Peru3
Changing farmland distribution in China3
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