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Journal of Peasant Studies

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A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world.

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Kabeer is both interdisciplinary and unafraid to mix methods... this book deserves a wide readership" Geof Wood @bathspauni.bsky.social reviews Renegotiating Patriarchy for The Journal of Peasant Studies 👁️ Full review: doi.org/10.1080/0306... 👁️ Free book download: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
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Renegotiating patriarchy: gender, agency and the Bangladesh Paradox
Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Now’s a good time to check out the following article from Wenner-Gren Grant recipient Elias Plata Espino, in, “The Journal of Peasant Studies.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tomas García Azcarate @tgazcarate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Raquel Ajates (2023) From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:3, 1056-1084 doi.org/10.1080/0306...
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From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems
4th Industrial Revolution technologies that blur the lines across physical, digital and biological domains have entered seed systems. The digitalisation of seeds' DNA is generating the unstoppable ...
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Marcus Taylor @marcusetaylor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our new open access paper on shifting agrarian temporalities under climate change… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Playing with time: the temporalities of agrarian intensification under climatic instability
Agricultural practices across rural India have changed markedly, and the interlocking temporalities of agrarian life have grown in complexity. Fieldwork from rural Maharashtra demonstrates how farm...
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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
An urgent appeal on behalf of the family of Boy Dominquez. If you work on areas published by the @peasantjournal.bsky.social, taught by @plaasuwc.bsky.social or struggled for by @viacampesina-en.movimientos.social.ap.brid.gy and the @nfucanada.bsky.social, please consider contributing:
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Arnim Scheidel @arnimscheidel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In the first review, published in @peasantjournal.bsky.social, we track the role of hard and soft laws in both enabling and preventing #GreenGrabbing, and how communities may shape "law-from-below" and bottom-up legal reforms. Data: systematic lit review. doi.org/10.1080/0306...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
How have 'National Champion' policies worked out? In a new #OpenAccess article, Katherine Sievert et al. evaluate 'national champion' firms, finding worse outcomes for the states and citizens sponsoring them, suggesting stronger anti-trust policies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘National champions’ in global meat supply chains: implications for governance and corporate power in food systems
National champion policies in BRICS countries pose challenges for governance in global meat processing markets as they increase concentration, reduce competition and enhance corporate power in food...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How can James Scott's anarchism help inform Critical Agrarian Studies today? In a new #OpenAccess article, Julien-François Gerber revisits James Scott's work, showing how his contribution to anarchism offers fertile theoretical ground for CAS studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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James Scott’s anarchism
The ‘anarchist lens’ can be seen as a key thread throughout James Scott’s works in critical agrarian studies (CAS). This article offers an overview of his engagement with anarchism. It reviews four...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What ideals drive community agroecological movements? In a new #FullAccess article, Claudia Fernandez Gonzalez et al, show how agroecology is contextualized in community needs and aspirations, through the study of Mexican peasant and Indigenous communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Community-driven agroecology: roots of resistance in Mexican communities
Agroecological social movements advocate for valuing agroecology beyond technical dimensions, incorporating physical, social, economic, philosophical, and experiential aspects. This article examine...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
How can we understand, and effectively use, everyday resistance? In a new #OpenAccess article, Kevin O'Brien revisits James Scott's "Weapons of the Weak", to understand how we can conceptualize everyday practices of resistance that are adopted for survival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Everyday forms of resistance in theory and practice
James Scott’s work on everyday forms of resistance stands out owing to three analytical moves: principled motives do not matter much, rural populations have choices other than passivity or rebellio...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
What does land defense look like when connection to land is being eroded? In a new #OpenAccess article, Paul Kohlbry looks at post-agrarian land defense in Palestine through land struggles in villages in the West Bank, illuminating its emancipatory potential. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Post-agrarian land defense: rethinking resistance from the rural margins of Palestine
Land struggles in rural Palestine have given rise to influential practices, movements, and representations of anti-colonial resistance. While these struggles have received significant attention, sc...
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fizza7.bsky.social @fizza7.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New paper out with fantastic colleagues in the Journal of Peasant Studies! 🎉 "Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies." Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #FoodSovereignty #AgrarianStudies #CollectiveHealth
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Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies
Despite the intrinsic connection between food and health, industrialised global food systems produce hunger, malnutrition, and chronic diseases. The Food Sovereignty (FS) movement offers a politica...
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Bringing back a fav—as we think of what gets a food systems moving by tracing what got it to move in the past This food crisis is different: COVID-19 & the fragility of the neoliberal food security order www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @williamgmoseley.bsky.social
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This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order
Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left by these past pol...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Land, Life and Society in Cartagena #icarrd20 Consensus of gathered speakers from around the world is clear: “agrarian reform is not a thing of the past!”
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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@peasantjournal.bsky.social has made the following articles open access as we approach #ICARRD+20: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... There are 2 more
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Grassroots voices special forum: resisting land grabs and building alternatives
Contemporary land grabbing extends far beyond agriculture to encompass forests, water sources, rivers, oceans, and entire territories. Communities and movements continue to resist via food sovereig...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? In a new #OpenAccess article, Michael Levien and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social challenge the reductive articulation of climate solutions solely through the lens of carbon www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Against the planetary: carbon fetishism and the politics of false solutions
Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? Building on Stuart Hall, we argue that regressive climate change solutions are enabled by an articulati...
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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
You can follow these debates about rural futures, land, food, and climate politics at the #ICARRD20 in Colombia, starting this week: The second 'International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development'. Follow @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @peasantjournal.bsky.social
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ianscoones.bsky.social @ianscoones.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Rethinking with uncertainty: two new open access articles. Short essays on the political and methodological implications of embracing uncertainty @peasantjournal.bsky.social @ids.ac.uk zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/r...
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Rethinking with uncertainty: two new articles
Two open access articles have just come out that take the theme of ‘uncertainty’ and explore how it encourages some fundamental rethinking. First, ‘development’ as conventio…
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
In a new #FullAccess article, Pierre-Marie David and Nicolas le Dévédec chart the colonial and capitalist project of the pharmaceutical industry, showing how medicalization of humans and non-humans sustains the capitalist world economy and continues exploitation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pharmaceuticals in the Capitalocene: on the metabolic exploitation of life and bodies in the capitalist world-ecology
Drawing on research in environmental humanities and critical agrarian studies, this article seeks to explore the role that drugs play in the world-ecology of capitalism. We propose a “political eco...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
How does the growth of right-wing populism shape modern agrarian struggles? In a #FullAccess article, Motta et al study the contemporary landscape of agrarian struggles in Germany, providing valuable insights on building alliances in an era of far-right populism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany
Massive farmers’ protests swept Germany in 2024, triggering debates on the relationship between agrarian capitalism and the climate crisis. Based on protest surveys and data from the organizations ...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How do plantation logics shape adaptation to climate change? In a new article, @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social examines adaptation through the lens of the Plantationocene, showing how it is framed in extractivist and colonial logic #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2025.2601963
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Adaptation in the Plantationocene
Plantation logics have been responsible for devastating transformations of the planet including climate change. While they have shaped the current social and ecological conditions we live with toda...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
How can Ecosocialism and Critical Agrarian Studies help us understand a world in ecological decay? In a new article, @koheisaito.bsky.social bridges the theoretical divide between the fields, providing a powerful framework to analyze our world #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ecosocialism and critical agrarian studies
This paper reconstructs Karl Marx’s evolving vision of communism through ecological, agrarian, and decolonial debates. While early Marx was shaped by the trinity of productivism, Eurocentrism, and ...
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Journal of Peasant Studies @peasantjournal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Welcome to the Journal of Peasant Studies' Bluesky account! We are working on a starter pack of authors, activists and groups who are part of the JPS network. Please let us know if you're a JPS author on Bluesky and would like to be added. go.bsky.app/UFB5Goh
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