In her article published online on E-International Relations, Dr Cynthia Embido Bejeno examines an integrated justice approach to land reform in order to understand agrarian concerns and gender justice.
She argues that land injustices rooted in class and gender are deeply intertwined and shaped by economic maldistribution, cultural misrecognition and political misrepresentation. Any meaningful response to the land reform question must, therefore, integrate these three dimensions – economic, cultural and political. This is what she terms the 'integrated justice approach to land reform'.
She demonstrates that class and gender-based land injustices are primarily caused by agrarian and gender structures, perpetuating economic maldistribution, cultural misrecognition and political misrepresentation.
Bejeno's analysis is based on two case studies in the Philippines and develops the arguments introduced in her PhD thesis and later Working Paper.
Read the full article online - 'Revisiting and Resharing the Idea of an Integrated Justice Approach to Land Reform' E-International Relations. August 2025.
- Researcher