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Critical Agrarian Studies Book Series

Series Editor: Saturnino ('Jun') M. Borras Jr.

Published Titles

The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

By Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...More information

Published March 2011 by Routledge

Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies

By Saturnino Borras Jr.

Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and environmental ...More information

Published July 2010 by Routledge

Forthcoming Titles

New Frontiers of Land Control

By Nancy Peluso, and Christian Lund.

Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century. ‘Exclusion’, ‘alienation’, ‘expropriation’, ‘dispossession’, and ‘violence’ animate histories of land use, property rights, and territories. More recently, agrarian...More information

Published August 2012 by Routledge

Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabw

 

By Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins and Rudo Gaidzanwa.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following...More information

Published September 2012 by Routledge

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