OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peasant Studies is 6. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘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 conversation	96
Real estate oligarchs: elites and the urbanization of the land question in El Salvador	70
Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community	59
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands	51
A brief history of commercial capitalism	49
Emancipatory agroecologies: social and political principles	33
Resilience and conflict: rethinking climate resilience through Indigenous territorial struggles	29
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists	25
Disturbed forests, fragmented memories: Jarai and other lives in the Cambodian highlands	25
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives	24
Patagonian ground rules: institutionalizing access at the frontier	24
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	24
The last enclosure: smoke, fire and crisis on the Indonesian forest frontier	24
Scholar activism and land struggles	23
Key concepts in critical agrarian studies: an editorial note	23
Linking climate-smart agriculture to farming as a service: mapping an emergent paradigm of datafied dispossession in India	21
Hybrid hilltops: metabolism and the ecology of labor and capital in colonial central India	21
Becoming organic: nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya	21
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics	21
Feral atlas: The more-than-human Anthropocene	20
Care is the new radical: food and climate approaches from a peasant feminist perspective	19
The great conservation tragedy? A critical reflection of (neo)protectionism in relation to the ‘30 × 30’ global biodiversity framework	19
The relational state and local struggles in the mapping of land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia	18
Laboring for light: energy unfreedoms and freedom dreams of solar labor in Ghana	18
Land rush	18

The struggle for land in coastal Ecuador during the PAIS alliance pink-tide governments: trapped in patronage, corruption, and violence	17
Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey	16
Diffuse land control, shifting pastoralist institutions, and processes of accumulation in southern Kenya	16
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	16
The political economy of opium reduction in Myanmar: the case for a new ‘alternative development’ paradigm led by and for opium poppy farmers	15
COVID-19, lockdown and peasants in Zimbabwe	15
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	15
Governance of the commons and social values: a dialogue between Elinor Ostrom’s work and the francophone theory of reciprocity	14
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	14
Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection	14
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	14
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	13
Food anarchy and the State monopoly on hunger	13
The agrarian question in Yemen: the national imperative of reclaiming and revalorizing indigenous agroecological food production	13
Anticipatory ruination	12
Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation: agricultural mechanisation, class formation, and market liberalisation in Ghana	12
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	12
The necropolitics of expendability: migrant farm workers during COVID-19	11
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	11
Suffering for dignity and hope: young Nigeriens choose perilous trans-Saharan migration	11
Land relations, resource extraction and displacement effects in island Papua New Guinea	11
Making soil in the Plantationocene	11
Playing by the rules: formalisation in the agroecology sector during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and critical agrarian studies	10
The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict	10
‘We are the oceans, we are the people!’: fisher people’s struggles for blue justice	10
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey	10
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	10
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	10
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	10
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	10
Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?	9
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	9
Keeping African women in social reproduction roles: a systematic qualitative review of literature on post-FTLRP Zimbabwe	9
Situating ethno-territorial claims: dynamics of land exclusion in the Guarayos Forest Reserve, Bolivia	9
Landscapes of homesickness: mobilizing affect for rural return in Xi Jinping era, China	9
Counter-hegemonic resistance on the extractive frontier in Peru: exploring the legal-political nexus	9
Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands	9
Social differentiation of the peasantry (Marxist)	9
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution	9
Certificated exclusion: forest carbon sequestration project in Southwest China	9
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	8
The Krishna Bharadwaj and Eric Wolf Prize 2019–2020	8
Business as usual? Cannabis legalisation and agrarian change in Zimbabwe	8
Unanticipated transformations of infrapolitics	8
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	8
The long reach of commodity frontiers: social reproduction and food procurement strategies among migrant workers in Kenya’s flower farms	8
Agricultural and land commercialization – feminist and rights perspectives	8
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	8
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	8

Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm	8
Placing Cambodia’s agrarian transition in an emerging Chinese food regime	7
Development or dispossession? Exploring the consequences of a major Chinese investment in rural Cambodia	7
To do, to know, and to be . A firsthand account of Cuban agroecology	7
An elusive common	7
Theft is property! Dispossession and critical theory	7
Reading markets politically: on the transformativity and relevance of peasant markets	7
Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform	7
Food sovereignty and agroecology praxis in a capitalist setting: the need for a radical pedagogy	7
Monocrops	7
Introducing: the Artivism review series	7
The making of land and the making of India	7
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	7
Indigenous peoples, commons and the challenge of sustaining life amid capitalist land grabs	7
Healing Grounds: climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farmingHealing Grounds: climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming, by Liz Carlisle, Washington, DC, Island Pres	6
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	6
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom	6
Do women like to farm? Evidence of growing burdens of farming on women in rural India	6
Gone with the Hazelnuts	6
Marxist past to speculative futures: migration, land markets, and political storytelling in Nepal’s Tarai	6
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia	6
‘Waiting for the call to prayer’: exploitation, accumulation and social reproduction in rural Java	6