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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e‐tailers in agricultural e‐commerce in China33
Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development: Contested Spaces of Regulating Bamboo Shoots in China's Giant Panda National Park29
Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India24
‘For them farming may be the last resort, but for us it is a new hope’: Ageing, youth and farming in India23
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?23
The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia21
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
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
Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile16
Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens15
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). I14
No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone13
Revisiting class: A feminist political economy analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey12
The Children of China's Great Migration, by RachelMurphyCambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 300. £75 (hb)/$50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781108834858 (hb)/9781108883221 (ebook)11
‘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 markets10
Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia10
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt10
Tastes for Luxury: How Dietary Aspirations Underpin Food Regimes9
The Legacy of Carmen Diana Deere: Gender, Households, and Market Integration—An Introduction9
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Sustainability for Finance: Situating Green Bonds in the Assetization of Brazilian Agriculture9
Exploitation, Interlinked Transactions and Agrarian Class Relations in Uttar Pradesh, India9
The social reproduction of natural resource extraction and gendered labour regimes in rural Turkey9
Temporariness made interminable: Pacific Islander farmworkers in Australia and the enduring crises of global agricultural production9
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‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’: Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic9
Labour and Land in Indonesia: An Introduction8
The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala8
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha8
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The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India8
A Marxist Mosaic. Selected Writings 1968–2022 by JairusBanaji. Brill. 2024. xii + 857 pp. €229.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐90‐04‐70330‐87
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
Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa's ‘relative surplus population’7
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java6
Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya6
Progressive politics and populism: Classes of labour and rural–urban political sociology—An introduction to the special issue6
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Pelagic Imperialism in the 21st Century? A Geopolitical Economy of China's Distant Water Fishing Industry6
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The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–19806
Between autonomy and heteronomy: Navigating peasant and indigenous organizations in contemporary Bolivia6
Encountering Plant Materiality: Limits of Large‐Scale Soybean Intercropping in China6
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
Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey5
Agrarian change, populism, and a new farmers' movement in 21st century Pakistani Punjab5
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
Discipline and resistance in southwestern Ontario: Securitization of migrant workers and their acts of defiance5
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); $39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 97804720755
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture?5
Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores5
What is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?5
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Urban form and scale shaped the agroecology of early ‘cities’ in northern Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Central Europe4
The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By KellyBronson, Québec: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. pp. 224. C$ 37.95 (pbk)/C$ 130 (hbk4
China's financialized soybeans: The fault lines of neomercantilism narratives in international food regime analyses4
Behind the Myth: Land Sparing and Deforestation in Brazil4
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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)3
Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector3
Resettled but not redressed: Land restitution and post‐settlement dynamics in South Africa3
Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso3
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique3
Who rents out the land? Agrarian capital accumulation and lessor landowners in South America: The case of Uruguay3
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
Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class‐Relational Approach to Rentierism in India3
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
Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa3
Editorial Introduction: The 25th Anniversary Forums3
Paying for ecological services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality3
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal3
Three populisms and two dead ends: Variants of agrarian populism in Thailand3
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Contested capital: Rural middle classes in India, By MaryamAslany. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp xxiii+299. $120.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐108‐83633‐32
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)/978162532
Political economy of input–output markets of groundnut: A case from the groundnut value chain of Turkey2
‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland2
The Generics Revolution and the New Economic Geography of the Global Pesticide Industry2
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
Essential agriculture, sacrificial labor, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US South2
Going green in Thailand: Upgrading in global organic value chains2
Institutions and the Gender Land Gap: A Comparative Analysis2
Tracking farmland investment in Australia: Institutional finance and the politics of data mapping2
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Coolie labour and colonial capitalism in Asia2
Labour control regimes in the rural and urban workplaces of global production networks: The coffee case of Colombia2
Restructuring palm oil value chain governance in Colombia through long‐term labour control2
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry: From the agrarian question to the question of industrialization2
Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp2
Seeds of empire or seeds of friendship? The politics of the diffusion of Chinese cotton seeds in Tajikistan1
Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience1
The social reproduction of (and through) food: Agrarian change in Uzbekistan1
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation, By KelkarGovind and DevNathanCambridge University Press. 2020. 284 pp. $99.99 (hbk). ISBN: 97811084905111
Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra1
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers1
“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China1
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Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India, By ShankarRamaswami, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. pp. 304. $64.95 (hb) / $64.95 (e‐1
Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma1
Political economy of the ‘agrarian–urban frontier’ in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation1
Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North1
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Land for dignity and struggle for identity: Landlordism and caste in a village of south India1
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
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Sustainability Standards, Differentiation and Green Capital Accumulation in Global Agrifood Value Chains1
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Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana1
Rethinking dispossession: The livelihood consequences of land expropriation in contemporary rural China1
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
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
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A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers1
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America1
Between construction yard and village: Changing relations of caste and hierarchy among Madhya Pradesh's labouring classes1
The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village1
Navigating the contradictory dynamics of production and social reproduction in collectively owned agricultural enterprises in South Africa's land reform1
Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction1
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