
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- borras@iss.nl
Profile
Saturnino ('Jun') M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, and an Editor of Journal of Peasant Studies. He is a recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his ongoing research project, "Commodity & land rushes: reshaping five spheres of global social life - food, climate change politics, labour/migration, state/citizenship, and geopolitics" in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is also Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing, and an associate at the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute (TNI).
He has several publications: books, journal special issues, and articles. His Open Access books include Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements (with Marc Edelman) and Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World (co-edited). He is currently co-editing (with Jennifer Franco) The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics.
His research interests include: land politics/land rush, (trans)national agrarian movements (TAMs); migrant farmworkers, climate change politics; food politics/food sovereignty; BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and global agrarian transformations. His geographic areas of research interest are: Southeast Asia, China, Africa, and South America. He also studies international institutional 'spaces' of state- society interactions, including the role of global governance institutions.
He works within the tradition of, and at the same time studies and writes about, scholar-activism. This has been influenced by his background: He has been deeply involved in rural social movements since the early 1980s in the Philippines, and later, internationally. He was a founding member of the international peasant and farmer's movement La Via Campesina (LVC), and was a member of LVC's International Coordinating Committee (ICC) in 1993-1996. He has engaged, selectively, with international inter-governmental institutions on specific issues.
He is in the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List for five consecutive years, 2018-2022. He has received the Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development (2020), and is a winner of the National Book Award 2009 (Philippines). He is a co-editor of the ICAS small book series in critical agrarian studies, all of the available titles in it are now Open Access. He collaborates with the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Scholar-Activists in the South (CASAS) on a number of training initiatives.
- Saturnino M. Borras (2023) - Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today - Journal of Peasant Studies - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2163164 - [link]
- Jun Borras (2022) - The Difficult but Not Impossible Defeating of Right-Wing Populism and the Exploration of a Socialist Future - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10264-6_17
- Jun Borras, Jennifer C. Franco, Tsegaye Moreda Shegro, Yunan Xu, Natacha Bruna & Binyam Afewerk Demena (2022) - The value of so-called ‘failed’ large-scale land acquisitions - Land Use Policy, 119 - doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106199 - [link]
- Jun Borras (2022) - Foreword - [link]
- Andrew Ofstehage, Wendy Wolford & Jun Borras (2022) - Contemporary populism and the environment - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47, 671-696 - doi: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-124635
- Jun Borras & Jennifer C. Franco (2022) - Global climate of land politics
- Jun Borras (2021) - Susan George and contemporary anticapitalist struggles within and against the global food system - [link]
- Jennifer C. Franco & Saturnino M. Borras (2021) - The global climate of land politics - Globalizations, 18 (7), 1277-1297 - doi: 10.1080/14747731.2021.1979717 - [link]
- SM (Jun) Borras (2021) - Movimientos sociales agrarios La absurdamente difícil, pero no imposible, agenda para derrotar al populismo de derecha y explorar un futuro socialista: La absurdamente difícil, pero no imposible, agenda para derrotar al populismo de derecha y explorar un futuro socialista - Revista Boliviana de Estudios Agrarios y Rurales, 5 - [link]
- SM (Jun) Borras & JC Franco (2021) - The 5Rs in Myanmar: Five principles for a future federal democratic system where rural working people can flourish - Transnational Institute (TNI)
- Jun Borras, Ian Scoones, Ben White, Ruth Hall, Marc Edelman, Wendy Wolford & Lyda Fernanda Forero (2021) - Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism - doi: 10.4324/9781003162353-1 - [link]
- Jun Borras, Ian Scoones, Ben White, Marc Edelman, Wendy Wolford & Lyda Fernanda Forero (2021) - Preface – Authoritarian populism and the rural world - doi: 10.4324/9781003162353
- SM (Jun) Borras, I Scoones, Marc Edelman, L Forero, R Hall, Wendy Wolford & BNF (Ben) White (2021) - Authoritarian populism and the rural world - [link]
- Saturnino M. Borras, Ian Scoones, Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso & Wendy Wolford (2021) - Climate change and agrarian struggles: An invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum - Journal of Peasant Studies, 49 (1), 1-28 - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1956473 - [link]
- Jun Borras & Marc Edelman (2021) - Movimentos agrários transnacionais
- SM (Jun) Borras & Marc Edelman (2021) - Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements: (with new 2021 preface) - doi: 10.3362/9781780449142
- SM (Jun) Borras, Jennifer C. Franco, Doi Ra, Tom Kramer, Mi Kamoon, Phwe Phyu, Khu Khu Ju, Pietje Vervest, Mary Oo, Kyar Yin Shell, Thu Maung Soe, Ze Dau, Mi Phyu, Mi Saryar Poine, Mi Pakao Jumper, Nai Sawor Mon, Khun Oo, Kyaw Thu, Nwet Kay Khine, Tun Tun Naing, Nila Papa, Lway Htwe Htwe, Lway Hlar Reang, Lway Poe Jay, Naw Seng Ja, Yunan Xu, Chunyu Wang & Jingzhong Ye (2021) - Rurally rooted cross‐border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid‐19, and agrarian movements - Agriculture and Human Values, 39 (1), 315-338 - doi: 10.1007/s10460-021-10262-6 - [link]
- Jun Borras, JC Franco & Z Nam (2020) - Climate change and land: insights from Myanmar - World Development, 129 - doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104864 - [link]
- Jun Borras, R Hall, Max Spoor, H Veltmeyer & J Ye (2020) - Foreword - [link]
- B Cousins, Jun Borras, S Sauer & J Ye (2018) - Globalizations (Journal)
- Tsegaye Moreda Shegro, Jun Borras, Alberto Alonso Fradejas & Z Brent (2018) - Third World Quarterly (Journal)
- E Corbera, C (Carol) Hunsberger, C Vaddanaphuti & Jun Borras (2017) - Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement (Journal)
- Jun Borras (2015) - Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Journal)
- M Edelman, JC Scott, A Baviskar, Jun Borras, D Kandiyoti, E Holt-Gimenez, T Weis & W Wolford (2014) - Journal of Peasant Studies (Journal)
- M Edelman, C Oya & Jun Borras (2013) - Third World Quarterly (Journal)
- Jun Borras, Cris Kay, S Gomez & J Wilkinson (2012) - Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Journal)
- Chunyu Wang, Jun Borras & C (Carol) Hunsberger (2012) - Paper for the University of Cape Town, South Africa, SANPAD Project Workshop
- Jun Borras, JC Franco, C (Carol) Hunsberger & Chunyu Wang (2012) - Paper presented at the ‘Global Land Grabbing Conference II
- Jun Borras (2022) - Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2022
- Jun Borras (2021) - Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- Jun Borras (2020) - Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development
- Jun Borras (2020) - Web of Science Highly Cited Research
- Jun Borras (2019) - Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- Jun Borras (2018) - Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- Jun Borras (2009) - National Book Award 2009 -- Social Sciences (Philippines)
China Agricultural University
- Start date approval
- December 2022
- End date approval
- June 2025
- Place
- BEIJING
- Description
- (honorary) Distinguished Professor
2101 The Making of Development
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-2101-22-23
4240 Agrarian and Food Politics
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4240-22-23
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-22-23
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-22-23
Major AFES
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-AFES-22-23
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-22-23
General Information
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-22-23
4150 Political Economy
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4150-22-23
Global Poverty, Local Solutions
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-MI-8102