Agrarian Studies
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In December 2018, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. UNDROP is the product of 17 years of struggle by La Via Campesina, other transnational agrarian movements and... more
Resistance against the appropriation of nature, especially land, has been one of the key struggles of the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina (LVC) since its inception in 1993. The issue of access to land has become even more... more
Esta obra coletiva surge como um dos mais palpáveis frutos da atividade desenvolvida ao longo desses últimos três anos pelo Grupo de Estudos Agrários – GEA, que surgido originalmente do encontro de alunos e professores das Faculdades de... more
The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and... more
Brazil has endured multiple political, economic, and environmental crises-and now the COVID-19 pandemic-which have drawn social inequalities into razor sharp relief. This contribution analyzes the resilience of rural families facing these... more
An update of results after 30 years of survey and excavations at Sagalassos
Coluna Direito do Agronegócio - Conjur.
This article addresses the dynamics between three interrelated questions of agrarian transition in Punjab. The first concerns the role and nature of the state and the market mechanism for the transformation of traditional agriculture into... more
El artículo analiza las diferentes labores agrarias que reciben las vides de una gran explotación dependiente del monasterio de El Puig entre 1671 y 1691 basándose en los libros de contabilidad. Se estudia también el proceso de... more
The central contention of this article is that early nineteenth-century Irish landlords were constrained in their ability to control their estates by the prospect of peasant resistance. The apex of that resistance took the form of what... more
Mallorca keeps an age-old biocultural heritage embodied in their appealing landscapes, largely exploited as an intangible tourist asset. Although hotel and real estate investors ignore or despise the peasant families who still persevere... more
Agrarian transformations in Andean Peru, subject to larger sociopolitical and economic processes, entailed major material, environmental, and biological changes. The long history of sheep introduction in Andean environments, its specific... more
En el presente estudio histórico se analizan los antecedentes en el ámbito agrario del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Sin Tierra (MST) de Brasil, entre los años de 1964 y 1985: las condiciones sociales, políticas y económicas que lo... more
: Pada tahun 2019, Kabupaten Musi Rawas melaksanakan redistribusi tanah dari tanah eks kawasan hutan. Terbitnya Peraturan Presiden Nomor 86 Tahun 2018 diharapkan dapat mempercepat pelaksanaan reforma agraria. Regulasi ini mensyaratkan... more
That author of this study draws attention to a case of resistance against the communist regime, which occurred in a Czech rural district almost 60 years ago. The work deals with peasants’ protest rally in front of the District National... more
El objetivo de esta investigación es comprender la expansión de la soja en el Departamento de San Pedro (Paraguay) y analizar las relaciones comerciales establecidas entre productores rurales y empresas de esta cadena productiva. Esta... more
he reconfigured agrarian structure imposed new production and commoditisation patterns across the settlement types in Zimbabwe. From 2000, new markets were established, with differentiated effects on capital accumulation for different... more
O contexto da segunda metade do século XIX no Brasil é caracterizado pela realização de uma série de iniciativas, particulares e estatais, voltadas a modernizar o país. Neste artigo, a partir da análise dos relatórios do Ministério da... more
The rural proletariat constitute a substantial proportion of the global poor. Leading better lives is central to their political practices. In this paper, I aim to elaborate the political practices that attend to these aspirations,... more
Презентация доклада на 24-й международной научной конференцим студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных «Ломоносов-2017». В докладе рассматриваются историографический поиск и выделение высшего слоя нетитулованной англо-саксонской светской... more
Meend is a common place-name or toponym in and around the Forest of Dean. It is a name that is familiar to most people in the locality, and the majority of these could probably describe the principal characteristics of a meend. These... more
This study was carried out with the objective of assessing the general socio-economic status of Mukta Kamaiya after one decade of the liberation. Two village development committees (VDCs), namely Kohalpur in Banke and Kalika in Bardiya... more
Sol Lanteri y Juan Luis Martirén
The aim of the article consists in the research of transformations of ethnic identity in descendants of Belarusian peasantsmigrants of Siberia and the Far East. The source basis of the research includes field data collected by the author... more
Townsend Middleton's The Demands of Recognition is an invitation to think through the everyday dilemmas of ethnic minorities as well as the state anthropologists who certify them as 'scheduled tribes' in contemporary India. Through an... more
By Harry G. West and Celia Plender This question and answer session with academic staff and students was held with James C. Scott after he delivered a Distinguished Lecture in the Food Studies Centre at SOAS, University of London, in... more
Aquest article pretén realitzar una primera aproximació al coneixement del paisatge històric del Segrià meridional, una regió que comprèn grosso modo els termes municipals d'Almatret, Llardecans, Maials i la meitat meridional del de... more
This article discusses three main nodes of resistance (farmers, states and regional identities) to the BJP government’s farm laws and demonstrates that the linking wire between these three nodes is that these laws weaken the states’... more
Grabbing Power outlines the history of agribusiness in Northern Honduras—from the United Fruit Company’s dominance in the 20th century to the rise of a powerful class of domestic elites in the 1980s and 90s including the brutal landowner... more
The current Ethiopian government originated in a Marxist revolutionary movement, which early in its struggle against the Derg regime recognized the widespread discrimination against women in Ethiopian society and placed gender... more
The Global Environmental Justice Documentaries collection includes the film "River Blue." RiverBlue connects the global consumer appetite for fast fashion with a rapid increase in the highly profitable but environmentally damaging... more