As you know, 31 January 2023 is Jun’s last day as Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies after 15 years working for the journal. This year is also the 50th anniversary of JPS! We want to share with you Jun’s reflection paper recently released on how JPS and Critical Agrarian Studies have shaped each…
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Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Conference 2022. Plenary conferences
The Climate Change and Agrarian Justice conference took place from 26 – 29 September 2022. Watch the four plenary conferences. Check the full program Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies
Check out this open-access article in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Sinem Kavak (Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, & CASAS member). Abstract: By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run-of-the-river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or…
Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists
Check this article in JPS (Oct. 2022) by Rahma Hassan (Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen, and CASAS member), Iben Nathan (Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen) & Karuti Kanyinga (Research Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi). Abstract:…
Inside an enclave: the dynamics of capitalism and rural politics in a post-land reform context
Check out this paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies by George T. Mudimu (CASAS member & PLAAS) et al. Abstract: There is no doubt that Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program resulted in repeasantization. As several studies point out, it also resulted in accumulation from below by a majority of the resettled peasantry. Our…