OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peasant Studies is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	172
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	172
Scholar activism and land struggles	107
Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China	82
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city	60
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	54
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	50
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	48
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	46
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	44
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	44
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	39
Subjects of the sun: solar energy in the shadows of racial capitalism	37
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	37
Land rush	37
Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border	36
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	32
Labors of division: global capitalism and the emergence of the peasant in Colonial Panjab	30
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	29
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	29
The ‘return’ of land grabbing?	26
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 Colo	26
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	25
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	25

Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey	24
The end: Marx, Darwin, and the natural history of the climate crisis	24
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	22
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	21
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	20
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	20
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	20
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	19
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia	19
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	19
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	18
Correction	18
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	17
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks	17
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	17
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies	17
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 U	16
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	16
Evaluating the adoption of the Round Table on Responsible Soy in Mato Grosso, Brazil	16
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	16
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	15
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	15
Violent conflict, capitalism and insurgent food sovereignty	15
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	15
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation	14
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	14
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	14
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	14
The second contradiction of capitalism	14
Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies	14
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	14
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	14
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 the	13
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	13
Global pesticide complex	13
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	13
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)	13
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia	12
Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation	12
Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa	12
Global libidinal economy	12
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	12
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	12
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	12
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	11
China and global food security	11
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	11
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	11

The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	11
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	11
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	11
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	11
Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany	10
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	10
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	10
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	10
Handbook on alternative global development	10
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico	10
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	10
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	10
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 Laur	10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	10
Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives	9
‘Insiders eating home-grown food’, home gardens of Chinese smallholders, and hidden resistance in the food regime transition	9
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
Correction	9
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush	9
Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war	9
Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India	8
The legal geographies of Indigenous consultation and conservation law in Chile	8
James Scott’s anarchism	8
Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies	8
‘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 world	8
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020	8
Indebtedness to care: land, loans, and love in financializing Nepal	8
Agrarian transition in small open societies. The case of Caribbean economies	8
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 instability	8
Can states be decolonized? Indigenous peoples and radical constitutional reform in Bolivia	8