JPS climate change articles free access


Some of the papers presented and discussed during the Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference have already been published in JPS, as part of the JPS Special Forum on Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. In order to help expand and deepen the conversation, we are offering 14 of these articles free access from 20 September until 31 October 2022.

Pamela McElwee (2022): Advocating afforestation, betting on BECCS: land- based negative emissions technologies (NETs) and agrarian livelihoods in the global South, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2117032 


Ryan Stock (2022): Power for the Plantationocene: solar parks as the colonial form of an energy plantation, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120812

Edwige Marty, Renee Bullock, Matthew Cashmore, Todd Crane & Siri Eriksen (2022): Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes., The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2121918 

Tanya Matthan (2022): Beyond bad weather: climates of uncertainty in rural India, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2116316

Alistair Fraser (2022): Up in the air: the challenge of conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics to confront climate change, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2113779 

Murat Arsel (2022): Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2113390

Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın (2022): The environmentalization of the agrarian question and the agrarianization of the climate justice movement, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2101102

Gabe Schwartzman (2022) Climate rentierism after coal: forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:5, 924-944, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2078710

Daniela Soto Hernandez & Peter Newell (2022) Oro blanco: assembling extractivism in the lithium triangle, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:5, 945-968, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2080061

Jesse Ribot (2022) Violent silence: framing out social causes of climate-related crises, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:4, 683-712, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2069016 

Alejandro Camargo (2022) Imagined transitions: agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:4, 713-733, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2059350

Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso & Wendy Wolford (2022) Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:1, 1-28, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1956473 

Peter Newell (2022) Climate justice, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:5, 915-923, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2080062 

Kasia Paprocki (2022): Anticipatory ruination, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2113068 

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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.