OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peasant Studies is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Repeasantization and socio-territorial movements	156
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule	154
Moving Crops and the Scales of History	91
Scholar activism and land struggles	73
Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China	59
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city	56
The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core	52
Land rush	47
Participatory guarantee systems in Senegal: shifting labour dynamics in agroecology	46
Corn and the range: rethinking ranching, agriculture and the feedlot	45
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh	43
Breeding confusion: hybrid seeds and histories of agriculture	43
Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India	37
Subjects of the sun: solar energy in the shadows of racial capitalism	35
Misreading the Bengal delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh	35
Agribusiness moving through the Capitalocene: slow violence and renewed strategies of capitalist agriculture in Chile	35
Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border	34
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	32
Embedding the poor into the industrial system: what we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China	31
Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance Translating food sovereignty: cultivating justice in an age of transnational governance	30
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	30
‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas	28
Extractivism across production and social reproduction: classes of labour in rural Turkey	25
The rentierization of food: regimes of property and the making of Chile’s globalized agriculture	24

The ‘return’ of land grabbing?	24
The end: Marx, Darwin, and the natural history of the climate crisis	24
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions	24
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts	23
Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi Properties of rent: community, capital and politics in globalizing Delhi , by Sushmita Pati, New	23
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia	22
(Re)making a link: Country Fair and the Beijing Farmers’ Market: Emi Uemura, HomeShop artist	21
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protests	20
Local seed systems and Global China: the spread of Chinese hybrid seeds in Pakistan and Tajikistan	20
The persistence of the moneylender: how informal debt deepens financialization in the Cambodian countryside	20
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present	19
Jamaican Ganja farmers face extinction(s): grassroots activists propose ‘Jamsterdam’ resuscitation	18
Responding to ‘land grabs' in rural Eastern Germany: emancipatory agrarian politics in the context of authoritarian populism	18
Correction	18
Sustaining agrarian struggles through painting invasion and resistance: the work of BoyD	18
Australia’s new peasantry: towards a politics and practice of custodianship on agroecology-oriented farms	18
The evolving force of community: peasant uprisings and post-agrarian aspirations in Ecuador	17
Cultivating conflict: plantations and violence in the history of northern Colombia	17
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care: nomadic relationalities between the global pandemic and environmental risks	16
It’s about time: temporal and spatial fixes find vertical farms and local food in the shadow of COVID-19	16
EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region	16
Turnover time in the pandemic era: industrial poultry, avian influenza and capitalist strategies	16
Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance	16
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	15
Love for the land: lessons from farmers who persist in place	15
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation	15
Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement	14
Evaluating the adoption of the Round Table on Responsible Soy in Mato Grosso, Brazil	14
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
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India	14
Caporalato capitalism. Labour brokerage and agrarian change in a Mediterranean society	13
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture: entrepreneurial farming and the regional state in South India (Andhra Pradesh)	13
Violent conflict, capitalism and insurgent food sovereignty	13
Re-making Pascua Lama: corporate financialisation and the production of extractive space	13
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique	13
Agri-food globalization and food security in Brazil: recent trends and contradictions	13
Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle	12
Global pesticide complex	12
Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies	12
The second contradiction of capitalism	12
Rural precarity: relational autonomy, ecological dependence and political immobilisation in the agro-industrial margin	12
Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon	12
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	11
Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta	11
Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa	11
Global libidinal economy	11
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone	11
Dispersed dispossession: collective goods, appropriation, and agency in rural Russia	11
The agroecological movement. A panoramic view	11

Collective empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous peasant movements and political transformation	11
Deconstructing the market: agrarian change and social differentiation in Jordan	11
Gone with the Hazelnuts	11
Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India	11
Contract farming, capital and state: Corporatisation of Indian agriculture	10
Handbook on alternative global development	10
The geopolitics of green colonialism, global justice and ecosocial transitions	10
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice	10
Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system	10
China and global food security	10
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland	10
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform: a case study in Pidu, Sichuan	9
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala	9
Examining land rental markets’ linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability	9
The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction	9
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	9
Prefiguring buen sobrevivir : Lenca women’s (e)utopianism amid climate change	9
Dina , domination, and resistance: indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar	9
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today	9
‘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	9
Agrarian struggles, climate crisis and right-wing populism amidst progressive and conservative farmers’ protests in Germany	9
How agricultural contracting services are reshaping small-scale household farming in China	9
On the rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography	9
Dawn rose on a dead body: armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico	9