Journal of Agrarian Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Agrarian Change is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India40
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?26
Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile26
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China25
Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development: Contested Spaces of Regulating Bamboo Shoots in China's Giant Panda National Park23
Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India21
The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia20
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 health20
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power20
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions19
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: 9781478014916
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens16
Revisiting class: A feminist political economy analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey15
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geographyby HenriLefebvre, StuartElden and Adam DavidMorton, Editors, Robert Bononno, Translator. University of Minnesota Press. 2022. 304 pp. $59 (hbk); $30 (pbk). I15
The Children of China's Great Migration, by RachelMurphyCambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 300. £75 (hb)/$50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108834858 (hb)/9781108883221 (ebook)14
The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue14
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt14
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic13
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia11
‘Land for my children’: Gendered moral economies, social reproduction and resistance against land grabs in rural Cambodia11
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The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey10
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Autonomy as a politico‐economic concept: Peasant practices and nested markets10
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Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China9
Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes9
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines9
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha9
Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization, By R.Ramakumar (Ed.), Tulika Books. 2022. pp. xxiv+484. INR 1500 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐81‐950559‐0‐68
Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture8
Labour and Land in Indonesia: An Introduction8
Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa's ‘relative surplus population’8
The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala8
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production8
A Marxist Mosaic. Selected Writings 1968–2022 by JairusBanaji. Brill. 2024. xii + 857 pp. €229.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐90‐04‐70330‐88
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The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India8
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue7
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We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike7
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Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry6
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia6
Encountering Plant Materiality: Limits of Large‐Scale Soybean Intercropping in China6
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java6
The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–19806
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
Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya5
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab5
Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey5
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores5
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Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism5
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How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture?5
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: 97804720755
What is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?5
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance5
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction By Helen AnneCurry. University of California Press. 2022. Pp 321. $85 (hb); $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780520307681(hb)/9780520307698 (pb5
Behind the Myth: Land Sparing and Deforestation in Brazil4
The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By KellyBronson, Québec: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. pp. 224. C$ 37.95 (pbk)/C$ 130 (hbk4
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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)4
China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses4
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Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe4
Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa4
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique3
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Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India3
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality3
Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America: The case of Uruguay3
Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector3
Handbook of critical agrarian studies, By HaroonAkram‐Lodhi, KristinaDietz, BettinaEngels, Ben M.McKay, Edward Elgar (Eds.), 2021, Pp. xxvi + 713. £244.80 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐78897‐245‐13
Editorial Introduction: The 25th Anniversary Forums3
Twenty‐five years ofLiving Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world3
A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India3
Reassessing Soviet industrialization as primitive Soviet accumulation: Social reproduction, collectivization and peasant women's revolts under Stalin3
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal2
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso2
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey2
Accumulation by agricultural extension: Freedom and financial extractivism among Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST)2
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Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia2
Institutions and the Gender Land Gap: A Comparative Analysis2
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South2
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).2
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Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia2
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization2
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa2
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand2
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry2
Contested capital: Rural middle classes in India, By MaryamAslany. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp xxiii+299. $120.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐108‐83633‐32
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping2
Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform1
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America1
“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
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes1
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The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan1
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: 978‐1‐78920‐561‐91
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico1
Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra1
Sustainability Standards, Differentiation and Green Capital Accumulation in Global Agrifood Value Chains1
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest1
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The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village1
Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana1
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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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers1
Vulnerabilities of the neoliberal global food system: The Russia–Ukraine War and COVID‐191
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation, By KelkarGovind and DevNathanCambridge University Press. 2020. 284 pp. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN: 97811084905111
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Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan1
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China1
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics1
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control1
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland1
Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp1
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: 0‐1
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, 97818000822811
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Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India1
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers1
Political economy of the ‘agrarian–urban frontier’ in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation1
Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience1
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