Journal of Agrarian Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Agrarian Change is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Rural–urban connectivity strengthens agrarian peace: Evidence from a study of gender and motorcycle taxis in Sierra Leone31
Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India28
The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia26
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Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile19
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power19
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of COVID‐19 in Peru17
Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health16
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China16
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions15
‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India15
The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue14
Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness14
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone. By Tania MurrayLi, PujoSemedi, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. pp. 256. $26.95 (pb); $102.95 (hb). ISBN: 9781478014914
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic13
Revisiting class: A feminist political analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey13
Handbook on urban food security in the Global South, JonathanCrush, BruceFrayneGarethHaysom. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2020. 415 + x. £150 (hb).£48.00 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐78643‐150‐913
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Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia12
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt11
‘Land for my children’: Gendered moral economies, social reproduction and resistance against land grabs in rural Cambodia11
Autonomy as a politico‐economic concept: Peasant practices and nested markets11
The Children of China's Great Migration, by RachelMurphyCambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 300. £75 (hb)/$50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108834858 (hb)/9781108883221 (ebook)11
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The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey10
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines10
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Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China9
Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector9
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Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes8
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production8
Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture8
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Soybean production in Paraguay: Agribusiness, economic change and agrarian transformations7
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization, By R.Ramakumar (Ed.), Tulika Books. 2022. pp. xxiv+484. INR 1500 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐81‐950559‐0‐67
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Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa's ‘relative surplus population’7
A Marxist Mosaic. Selected Writings 1968–2022 by JairusBanaji. Brill. 2024. xii + 857 pp. €229.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐90‐04‐70330‐87
Seeds of power: Environmental injustice and genetically modified soybeans in Argentina, By AmaliaLeguizamón. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2020. pp. x+207. $99.95 (hb); $25.95 (pb). ISBN 96
We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike6
The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–19806
RebeccaTarlau. Occupying schools, occupying land. How the Landless Workers Movement transformed Brazilian education. New York: Oxford University Press. 2019. Pp. 391. £37.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978019086
The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala6
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Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue6
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Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya5
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism5
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance5
The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda5
Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry5
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia5
Power/knowledge/land: Contested ontologies of land and its governance in Africa. By Laura A.German, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 333. $90.00 (hbk); $39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 97804720754
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture?4
The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By KellyBronson, Québec: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. pp. 224. C$ 37.95 (pbk)/C$ 130 (hbk4
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores4
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Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab4
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction By Helen AnneCurry. University of California Press. 2022. Pp 321. $85 (hb); $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780520307681(hb)/9780520307698 (pb4
Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe4
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour3
Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America: The case of Uruguay3
Capitalist agriculture, COVID‐19 and agrarian labour relations in Punjab, India3
Water for all: Community, property, and revolution in modern Bolivia, by Sarah T.Hines. University of California Press. Pp. xviii+321. £ 66 (hb); £24 (pb). ISBN: 9780520381636 (hb); 9780520381643 (pb)3
Twenty‐five years ofLiving Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world3
China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses3
Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa3
Handbook of critical agrarian studies, By HaroonAkram‐Lodhi, KristinaDietz, BettinaEngels, Ben M.McKay, Edward Elgar (Eds.), 2021, Pp. xxvi + 713. £244.80 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐78897‐245‐12
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso2
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’2
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa2
A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India2
Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India2
Reassessing Soviet industrialization as primitive Soviet accumulation: Social reproduction, collectivization and peasant women's revolts under Stalin2
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South2
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand2
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal2
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Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality2
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry2
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization2
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique2
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia1
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control1
The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village1
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Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World, LiamCamplingAlejandroColásLondon & New York: Verso. 2021. pp. xiv + 418. £20/$29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 97817847852391
Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia1
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping1
Accumulation by agricultural extension: Freedom and financial extractivism among Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST)1
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Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform1
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains1
“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China1
Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction1
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Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp1
Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana1
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey1
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Contested capital: Rural middle classes in India, By MaryamAslany. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp xxiii+299. $120.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐108‐83633‐31
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland1
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics1
Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan1
Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina1
Politically directed accumulation in rural China: The making of the agrarian capitalist class and the new agrarian question of capital1
Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy, by ErikReardonAmherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2021. Pp. 192. $90.00 (hb)/$27.95 (pb). ISBN: 9781625345851 (hb)/978162531
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Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka, by MythriJegathesanUniversity of Washington Press. 2019. Pp. 288. $90 (hb)/$30 (pb). ISBN: 9780295745657 (hb)/9780295745671 (pb).1
Dispossession through land titling: Legal loopholes and shadow procedures to urbanized forestlands in the Yucatán Peninsula0
What kind of labour regime is contract farming? Contracting and sharecropping in Java compared0
The great agrarian conquest: The colonial reshaping of a rural world, by NeeladriBhattacharyaAlbany: SUNY Press. 2019. 522 pp. $100 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4384‐7739‐80
The political economy of agrarian extractivism: Lessons from Bolivia, by BenMcKay. Black Point: Fernwood Publications. 2020 172 pp. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97817736325370
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Pastoralism, multifunctionality, and environmental agency: Insights from mountain sheep pastoralists in Northern Portugal0
Beyond simplistic narratives: Dynamic farmers, precarity and the politics of agribusiness expansion0
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China0
Who Owns the Indonesian Countryside? From Corporate Capital to Capitalist Farmers and Landlord Capitalists0
Peasants in world history. By EricVanhaute, New York and London: Routledge. 2021. 146 pp. £136.81 (hbk); £36.59 (pbk). ISBN: 9780415740937, 9780415740944.0
Transnational Labour, Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal: The Remittance Village, RameshSunamRoutledge. 2020. 140 pp. £120.00 (hardback). ISBN: 97803674715690
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers0
Brewing Contradictions: State Intervention and Commodity Dynamics in Tea Agriculture in Turkey0
Cashing in or driving development? Cross‐border traders and maize contract farming in northeast Laos0
Land and contract farming: Changes in the distribution and meanings of land in Kilombero, Tanzania0
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico0
Amplifying invisibility: COVID‐19 and Zimbabwean migrant farm workers in South Africa0
An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis By Karen E.Rignall, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2021. pp. 264. 125$ (hb). ISBN: 97815017561220
Predators in the web of life: World ecology of historical human–wolf relations in Finland0
Vulnerabilities of the neoliberal global food system: The Russia–Ukraine War and COVID‐190
Masters of the countryside and their enemies: Class dynamics of agrarian change in rural Java0
Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia0
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines0
Plantation crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian tea belt. By JayaseelanRaj, London: UCL Press. 2022. pp. 234. £40 (hb); £20 (pb). ISBN: 9781800082298, 97818000822810
Land, investment and migration. By CamillaToulmin, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. pp. xxv + 241. £67.00 (hbk). ISBN 97801988527660
Social reproduction in rural Chinese families: A three‐generation portrait0
Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: Socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification0
Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India0
Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India0
Revisiting “empowered rural women” in postwar Japan0
Class formation and capital accumulation in the countryside: Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo0
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate0
Correction to “Book Review: Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone. By Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. pp. 256. $26.95 (pb); $0
‘Women stay behind and grow the food’: Agricultural productivity and the interstices of petty commodity production and reproductive labour in Tanzania0
Family farmers' strategies to develop autonomy through agroecological and solidarity economy practices: The case of BioVida in the Ecuadorian Andes0
Accumulation by Intermediation: The Contestation of Agro‐Food Capital in the South African Maize Industry0
Village ties: Women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh, by NaymaQayumRutgers University Press. 2021. Pp. 230. $120.00 (hb)/$29.95 (pb/ebook). ISBN: 9781978816459 (hb)/9781978816442 (0
Work and social reproduction in rural India: Lessons from time‐use data0
Migrant farmworkers: Resisting and organising before, during and after COVID‐190
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy0
Class Dynamics at the Margins: Capitalist Relations Among Shea Nut Collectors in Burkina Faso and Ghana0
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Care Work, Labour Control and the Gendered Social Reproduction of a Semi‐Landless Class in 19th Century Sweden0
Now we are in power: The politics of passive revolution in twenty‐first‐century Bolivia by AngusMcNelly. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. Pp. 268. $60 (hb). ISBN 13: 978‐08229‐4778‐3. ISBN 10: 0‐0
“Ploughing the land five times”: Opium and agrarian change in the ceasefire landscapes of south‐western Shan State, Myanmar0
Theatre of Enforcement at Sea: The Global Fight Against ‘Illegal Fishing’ and the Criminalisation of Fisher Peoples and Exploitation of Fish Workers0
Scholar‐activism and land struggles, By Saturnino M.BorrasJr., Jennifer C.Franco, Rugby: Practical Action Publishing. 2023. pp. 180. £49.94 (hbk)/£17.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐78853‐258‐7, 978‐1‐78853‐2570
Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience0
Litigating for legality: Nature conservation, commercial fisheries and disputed territoriality in Ukraine's Danube Delta0
Autonomy as a third mode of ordering: Agriculture and the Kurdish movement in Rojava and North and East Syria0
Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right‐wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony0
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Agrarian change in neoliberal Turkey: Insights from privatization of the sugar industry0
Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy: Agrarian change and lowland rice cultivation in northeastern Thailand and southern Laos0
Fluid Institutions of Access: Sea Space as a Livelihood Resource in Coastal Indonesia0
Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra0
Conceptualizing China's tea history in the 19th century: Incorporation into the capitalist world‐economy0
GM Crops and the Jevons Paradox: Induced Innovation, Systemic Effects and Net Pesticide Increases From Pesticide‐Decreasing Crops0
Capitalist trajectories in agrarian mountain societies of east and south‐east Arunachal, India0
Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America, Edited by LeighBinford, LesleyGill and SteveStrifflerNew York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2020. Pp. 228. $135.00/£99.00 (hb). ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐561‐90
The conservation‐extraction nexus in ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Tension or co‐constitution?0
Making green cocoa: Deforestation, the legacy of war, and agrarian capitalism in Côte d'Ivoire0
Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India0
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(Landlord) Theory from the South: Empire and estates on a Punjabi Frontier0
Autonomy and repeasantization: Conceptual, analytical, and methodological problems0
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The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan0
Who owns the wind?: Climate crisis and the hope of renewable energy, By DavidMcDermott HughesVerso. 2021. pp. 256. £11.89 (pbk). ISBN‐13:978‐1‐83976‐113‐30
Between forests and coasts: Fishworkers on the move in India0
The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction0
Agricultural intensification increases farmers' income but reduces food self‐sufficiency and bee diversity: Evidence from southeast Mexico0
Dynamics of class and labour: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Rajasthan (India)0
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes0
Political economy of class, caste and gender: A study of rural Dalit labourers in India, By IshitaMehrotra. : Routledge. 2022. pp. 224. £104.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97803673362330
Land acquisition and resource development in contemporary India By Shashi RatnekarSingh. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 188. £75.00 (hb). ISBN: 97811084869270
Surveillance agriculture and peasant autonomy0
Land reform and peacebuilding in Côte d'Ivoire: Navigating the minefield0
Political economy of the ‘agrarian–urban frontier’ in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation0
Differentiated agrarian vulnerabilities and generalized national responses to COVID‐19 in the Upper West Region of Ghana0
Who Is Responding? Spousal Perspectives on Agricultural Decision‐Making in India0
Labour Mobility and Colonial and Forced Labour Regimes in Indonesia: A Long‐Term View0
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A methodology for class analysis: Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa0
Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam0
Marine Degradation and Market Dependency in Ghana: Food Sovereignty as a Critique of Capital in Aquatic Food Systems0
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest0
Cosechar para el mundo, pastar para la region: Una historia de globalización en los Montes de María (1850‐1914) By SantiagoColmenares Guerra, Bogotá: Banco de la República and the Universidad Nacional0
Accidental gamblers: Risk and vulnerability in Vidarbha cotton by SarthakGaurav and ThiaguRanganathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 497. £150 (hb) / $150 (e‐book). ISBN: 97811088320
Organizational Accumulation: Revisiting Capitalist Transitions and the Danish Farmer Cooperatives From the 19th to the 21st Centuries0
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America0
Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia by JohnSoluri. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2024. 272 pp. $27.95 (pbk); $99.00 (hbk); $21.99 (e‐b0
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Land Grab Double Binds: Peasant Farmers and/in the Ecuadorian Mining Boom0
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism, by JairusBanajiChicago: Haymarket Books. 2020. Pp. 200. $36 (hb)/$13.96 (pb)/$11.99 (ebook). ISBN: 9781642592528 (hb)/9781642591323 (pb)/9781642592115 (ebook)0
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Rural differentiation and rural change: Microlevel evidence from Kenya0
Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens0
‘Blind laws’ and the bureaucracy of rights migrant industrial workers in post‐lockdown India0
Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process0
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The Class Dynamics of Ocean Grabbing: Who Are the ‘Fisher Peoples’?0
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Agrarian change through speculation: Rural elites as land brokers for mining in Colombia0
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Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North0
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Manufactured regional crises: The Middle East and North Africa under global food regimes0
Caste, diversification, and the contemporary agrarian question in India: A field perspective0
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Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances0
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation, By KelkarGovind and DevNathanCambridge University Press. 2020. 284 pp. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN: 97811084905110
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Blaming the victim or structural conditioning? COVID‐19, obesity and the neoliberal diet0
At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia, by Phillip A.HoughCambridge University Press. 2022. Pp. 280. £85.00 (hb). ISBN: 97813165171090
Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India By AniketAga. Yale University Press. 2021. pp. 328. $65.00 (hb). ISBN: 97803002459050
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