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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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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 India29
Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India26
Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile23
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 health19
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of COVID‐19 in Peru19
Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China19
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: 9781478014918
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power18
From survival to self‐governance: A comparison of two peasant autonomy struggles in Colombia's coffee and frontier regions17
Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness17
Revisiting class: A feminist political analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey15
Handbook on urban food security in the Global South, JonathanCrush, BruceFrayneGarethHaysom. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2020. 415 + x. £150 (hb).£48.00 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐1‐78643‐150‐915
The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue14
The Children of China's Great Migration, by RachelMurphyCambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 300. £75 (hb)/$50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108834858 (hb)/9781108883221 (ebook)14
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Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt13
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia13
‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic13
Autonomy as a politico‐economic concept: Peasant practices and nested markets11
‘Land for my children’: Gendered moral economies, social reproduction and resistance against land grabs in rural Cambodia11
The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey11
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Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector10
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Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes9
Tilling another's land: Migrant farming under rural industrialization and urbanization in China9
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines9
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How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha9
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Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture8
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
Soybean production in Paraguay: Agribusiness, economic change and agrarian transformations8
A Marxist Mosaic. Selected Writings 1968–2022 by JairusBanaji. Brill. 2024. xii + 857 pp. €229.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐90‐04‐70330‐88
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production8
Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa's ‘relative surplus population’7
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The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala7
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The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–19807
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue7
We, campesinos: The potentials and pitfalls of agrarian populism in Colombia's agrarian strike7
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia7
Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya6
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
Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry6
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance6
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
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab5
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture?5
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The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda5
Contesting total extractivism: Between idealism and materialism5
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores5
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
Capitalist agriculture, COVID‐19 and agrarian labour relations in Punjab, India4
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique4
Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour4
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
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
Twenty‐five years ofLiving Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world4
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction By Helen AnneCurry. University of California Press. 2022. Pp 321. $85 (hb); $29.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780520307681(hb)/9780520307698 (pb4
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The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By KellyBronson, Québec: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. pp. 224. C$ 37.95 (pbk)/C$ 130 (hbk4
A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India4
Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America: The case of Uruguay4
What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?4
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Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa3
Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa3
Reassessing Soviet industrialization as primitive Soviet accumulation: Social reproduction, collectivization and peasant women's revolts under Stalin3
Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India3
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal3
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia2
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
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Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia2
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South2
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
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand2
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso2
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
Accumulation by agricultural extension: Freedom and financial extractivism among Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST)2
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality2
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey2
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’2
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
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‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland1
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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
Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan1
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico1
COVID‐19 and the power of indigenous, Mexican‐origin farmworker families in the US Pacific Northwest1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes1
The political economy of agrarian extractivism: Lessons from Bolivia, by BenMcKay. Black Point: Fernwood Publications. 2020 172 pp. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97817736325371
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
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics1
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains1
Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp1
The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village1
“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China1
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers1
Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience1
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China1
Political economy of the ‘agrarian–urban frontier’ in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation1
Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction1
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Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana1
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control1
Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform1
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
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America1
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Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra1
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