Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

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

‘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.’

• 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 Jehlička36 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