Finally, the JPS 50th anniversary collection is out — and all articles are free access til the end of 2023, including CASAS piece Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*
Announcing : JPS 50th Anniversary Special Issue
featuring conversations with peasant movement leaders, now free access
The Journal of Peasant Studies was founded 50 years ago, in 1973. Twenty years later, the peasant movement La Via Campesina (LVC) was born. We mark this milestone – 50 years of JPS and 30 years of LVC – with this special collection of papers. The loosely-connected compilation consists of regular research articles, including a sign-off piece by outgoing Editor-in-Chief Saturnino M. Borras, Jr; our editors’ articulation of the need for continuity in the journal as well as agile responsiveness to converging and compounding crises across rural worlds; and Tania Murray Li’s critique of the persistent and problematic dualism drawn between peasant farmers and corporations, in a paper which, as she observes, illustrates the ‘iterative back and forth’ between theory and empirical investigation which is a hallmark of JPS.
The substantial Grassroots Voices section in this issue is dedicated to reflections on lessons from 30 years of LVC, with scholar-activists and activist-scholars from within and outside the movement in conversation with one another, in the form of joint reflections and interviews. Commentary papers present reflections from past Editor, Henry Bernstein; a world-historical contextualisation of the current crises by Phil McMichael; and an agenda articulating the agenda and manifesto of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South (CASAS).
The special issue is free access through the end of 2023.
And a reminder: There is still time to submit an abstract to the 50th Anniversary conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century to be held 10-12 October at China Agricultural University in Beijing.
JPS 50th Anniversary Special Issue 50(2):
Intertwined Histories: JPS at 50, La Via Campesina at 30
Ruth Hall, Jacobo Grajales, Ricardo Jacobs, Sérgio Sauer, Shaila Seshia Galvin & Annie Shattuck
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today
Saturnino M. Borras
Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions
Annie Shattuck, Jacobo Grajales, Ricardo Jacobs, Sergio Sauer, Shaila Seshia Galvin & Ruth Hall
Dynamic farmers, dead plantations, and the myth of the lazy native
Tania Murray Li
Grassroots Voices
‘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
Morgan Ody & Annie Shattuck
Thirty years of sowing hope to globalise the struggle: women and youth of La Via Campesina in the construction of food sovereignty – a conversation
Francisca Rodríguez & Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti
‘The food sovereignty movement is not part of my life, it is my life’: from local to international, reflecting on Korean women peasant organizing – a conversation
Geum Soon Yoon & Martha Jane Robbins
Being a peasant is about resistance: West African peasant movements and the struggle for agrarian justice
Ibrahima Coulibaly & Jacobo Grajales
It wasn’t an intellectual construction: the founding of La Via Campesina, achievements and challenges – a conversation
Paul Nicholson & Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Shaping our collective futures: activism, analysis, solidarity
Nettie Wiebe
Articles
The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: insights from La Via Campesina’s politics
Rita Calvário & Annette Aurélie Desmarais
The politics of transnational fishers’ movements
Elyse N. Mills
La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a laudatio
Saturnino M. Borras Jr
Commentaries
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present
Philip McMichael
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South*
Diana Aguiar, Yasmin Ahmed, Duygu Avcı, Gabriel Bastos, Bosman Batubara, Cynthia Bejeno, Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides, Komal Chauhan, Sergio Coronado, Somashree Das, Mercedes Ejarque, Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy, Diana Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong, Hao Phuong Phan, Rahma Hassan, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Huiying Ng, Sardar Babur Hussain, Sinem Kavak, Thiruni Kelegama, Amit John Kurien, Daren Shi-chi Leung, Tania Martínez-Cruz, Boaventura Monjane, George Tonderai Mudimu, Deniz Pelek, Tsilavo Ralandison, Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti, Dzifa Torvikey & Diana María Valencia-Duarte
JPS at 50: some personal reminiscences
Henry Bernstein
Book Reviews
Upland geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the global land rush
by Michael B. Dwyer, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2022, xvi + 232 pp., UK 25.99 (pb), UK 89.00 (hb), ISBN 978-0-295-75049-1
Christian Lund
Plantation life: corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone
by Tania Li and Pujo Semedi, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2021, 244 pp., $25.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781478013990
Miryam Nacimento
Carol Hernández
Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.
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