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Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.The Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the topic and trajectories for future research and development.This will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and development economics, human geography and socio-cultural anthropology.

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Edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada, Kristina Dietz, Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America, University of Kassel, Bettina Engels, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Ben M. McKay, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada

Table of Contents

Contents:Foreword xxiiiTania Murray LiAcknowledgements xxv1 An introduction to the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies 1A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKayPART I ORIGINS2 Frontiers, regimes and learning from history 9Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute3 Origins of peasant studies 15Harriet Friedmann4 The diversity of classical agrarian Marxism 25A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay5 Debates on the historical origins of agrarian capitalism 34Xavier Lafrance6 An alternative perspective on the agrarian question in Europe and in thedeveloping countries 45Utsa PatnaikPART II CONCEPTS7 The agrarian question 53Michael Watts8 Class 67Sara Berry9 Land 72A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi10 Frontiers: Commodification and territorialization 80Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Christian Lund11 Labour 91Jonathan Pattenden12 Labor and social reproduction 99Smriti Rao13 Peasants 109Jan Douwe van der Ploeg14 Gender 120Avanti Mukherjee15 Gender, nature, body 131Andrea J. Nightingale and Wendy Harcourt16 Kinship 139Pauline E. Peters17 Generation 150Ben White18 Intersectionality 157Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Markus Ihalainen and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett19 Merchant and usurer's capital 165John Harriss20 Agricultural markets 171Muhammad Ali Jan and Barbara Harriss-White21 Financialization 178Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson22 Agrarian law 187Sergio Coronado23 Territoriality 197Annie Shattuck and Nancy Lee Peluso24 Agrarian/land reform 205Ben Cousins25 Food regimes 218Philip McMichael26 Crisis 232Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi27 Food sovereignty, food security and the right to food 238Priscilla Claeys, Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jasber SinghPART III METHODOLOGIES28 Qualitative research 251Elisa Greco29 Quantitative analysis 258J. Paul Dunne30 Geographical research 266Oliver Pye31 Questions and answers 272A. Haroon Akram-LodhiPART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES32 The agrarian question in Africa: Past, present and future 279Samir Amin33 Social movements in times of extractivism: The ecoterritorial turn inLatin America 285Maristella Svampa34 Agrarian change in China: Historical origins and competing perspectives 296Qian Forrest Zhang35 Beyond confrontation: Silent growers, symbiosis and subtle peasantnessin post-socialist Eurasia 305Oane Visser, Brian Kuns and Petr Jehlika36 BRICS and global agrarian transformations 316Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira and Ben M. McKay37 Neoliberalism and the crisis in India's countryside 324Prabhat Patnaik38 Crises of capitalism in the countryside: Debates from the South 334Praveen Jha and Paris YerosPART V DEBATES39 Land grabs 346Ariane Goetz40 Water for agriculture 357Larry A. Swatuk41 Biofuels 366Carol Hunsberger42 Industrial fisheries and oceanic accumulation 374Elizabeth Havice and Liam Campling43 Forests and current transitions 387Markus Kröger44 Artisanal and small-scale mining 401Boris Verbrugge and Robin Thiers45 Footloose labour 410John Harriss46 Contract farming 416Helena Pérez Niño and Carlos Oya47 Biotechnology 427Matthew A. Schnurr and Lincoln Addison48 Agroecology 438Nils McCune and Peter Rosset49 Identities and culture in the rural world 453Nicholas Copeland50 Everyday politics in agrarian societies 463Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet51 The state and rural politics 469Leandro Vergara-Camus52 Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping 480Facundo Martín53 Rural social movements/transnational agrarian movements 491Giuliano Martiniello54 Industrial agriculture and agrarian extractivism 503Ben M. McKay and Henry Veltmeyer55 Rural dispossession and capital accumulation 515Derek Hall56 Ecological crises in the rural world 525Marcus Taylor57 Microfinance and rural financial inclusion 536Marcus Taylor58 Rural indebtedness 547Julien-François Gerber59 The neoliberal diet 556Gerardo Otero60 Meatification 561Tony Weis61 Digital agriculture 568Kristina Dietz and Franza Drechsel62 COVID-19 581A. Haroon Akram-LodhiPART VI TRAJECTORIES63 The interface of critical development studies and critical agrarian studies 594Henry Veltmeyer64 Political ecology 601Kristina Dietz65 Pluriloguing postcolonial studies and critical agrarian studies 610Johanna Leinius66 Agrarian justice: Land, human rights and democratization 620Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez67 Strategic linkages between STS and critical agrarian studies 630Ryan Nehring68 The Capitalocene response to the Anthropocene 636Kees Jansen and Joost Jongerden69 Degrowth in agrarian and fisheries studies 647Arnim Scheidel, Irmak Ertör and Federico Demaria70 Reconfiguring the intersection between urban food movements andagrarian struggles: Building an urban political agroecology praxis 656Chiara Tornaghi and Severin Halder71 Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside 666Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels72 Feasible utopias 676Ray BushIndex 689

Review

'This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for students, teachers, researchers, policy experts, and activists.' -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies'The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is a magnificent field-building achievement. Ambitious and comprehensive, it marks the coming of age of critical agrarian studies, with first-rate contributions from foundational thinkers and emerging stars on everything from agroecology and land, to financialization, territoriality, extractivism, migrant labour, and dozens of other topics.' -- Marc Edelman, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York'Critical agrarian studies is not a sentimental journey into the past but ways of rethinking how the dynamics of agrarian change reflect and shape some of the most important issues of our time. In these creative and thoughtful short chapters, leading scholars provide new angles on familiar questions such as land ownership, the ways we eat, agrarian extractivism, ecological crisis and rural social movements and on many new issues as well. Authors also lead readers through current debates and introduce them to the particular methodological problems of agrarian studies.' -- Bridget O'Laughlin, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Co-Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change'The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is an excellent and solid work that takes us through the foundational and current debates of this research field, its main concepts and methodological approaches, the intersection of the agrarian question with environmental, territorial, techno-science and financialization issues, among other topics. An essential reference book.' -- Carla Gras, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina'This Handbook will surely become the point of departure for anyone planning research on agrarian issues from a critical perspective. The 72 contributions – most by well-regarded experts in the field—provide both succinct literature reviews and substantive insight on a broad range of relevant topics. Some of the chapters, such as on The Agrarian Question, Land Grabs, and Feasible Utopias are superb. Whether for clarification of key concepts or to grasp the contours of current debates, the Handbook will be useful to students, researchers, those teaching in the field, as well as policy advocates and activists.' -- Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida, US

Details ISBN1035318881 Author Ben M. McKay Pages 744 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781035318889 Format Paperback Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ben M. McKay AU Release Date 2023-05-09 NZ Release Date 2023-05-09 Publication Date 2023-05-05 DEWEY 307.72 Audience Professional & Vocational UK Release Date 2023-05-05 We've got this

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