International Institute of Social Studies
International Institute of Social Studies

prof.dr. (Jun) SM Borras

prof.dr. (Jun) SM Borras
Full Professor International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Academic staff unit
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Telephone
31070
Email
borras@iss.nl

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Saturnino ('Jun') M. Borras Jr. is a Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and Editor-In-Chief of the 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 an Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) in China Agricultural University, Beijing, Fellow of the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute (TNI), and Belgium-based Centre Tricontinental/CETRI.

He has several academic and non-academic publications: books, journal special issues and articles. His most recent books are: (1) in Japanese -- ISBN978-4-7503-4745-5 マーク・エデルマン/ サȥルニーノ・ボラスJr. （監訳：舩田クラーセンさやか、訳：岡田ロマンアルカラ佳奈）『国境を越える農民運動ー世界を変える草の根の��ナ߯ス』明石書店、2018年、199頁。(Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements) (2018, with Marc Edelman), (2) In Spanish:  Movimientos agrarios transnacionales: historia, organizacion y politicas de lucha (Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements) (2018, Barcelona: ICARIA, with Marc Edelman); and (3) BRICS and MICs: Implications for Global Agrarian Transformation (2018, Routledge, with B. Cousins, S. Sauer and Y. Jingzhong as co-editors); (4) Converging social justice issues and movements (2020, with Moreda et al, editors). 

His thematic areas of work include: land politics (including contemporary 'global resource rush'); (trans)national agrarian movements (TAMs); migrant farmworkers especially in China, Myanmar and Vietnam; resource conflict; climate change politics; food politics; geopolitics, BRICS/MICs and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and global agrarian transformations; state/citizenship, rightwing populism and the rural world. 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 has continuing research interest in and efforts at further developing the concepts of ‘flex crops’, ‘land sovereignty’, ‘agrarian climate justice’, ‘land grabs that never were’, 'petty reformism and struggles for deep transformative social reforms around recognition, restitution, redistribution and regeneration,' 'land pillar of food sovereignty', interconnection between climate change politics and resource grabbing (esp. the subtle links between climate change politics and land grabs), converging social justice issues and movements (agrarian, environmental, climate, labour justice), and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and agrarian transformations.

He works within the tradition of, and at the same time studies and writes about, scholar-activism. This has been influenced by his professional 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 was, for example, a member of the FAO High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE)  team that prepared a report on global land investments; collaborated with FAO (Latin America and the Caribbean) in their earlier study on land grabbing in 17 countries in the region; and led a study commissioned by the European Parliament on land grabbing and human rights.

He has helped establish a global network of academics and social movement activists, the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), helps coordinate its work, and in setting up the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) (www.iss.nl/ldpi), a global network of researchers studying land grabbing. He has helped in establishing a network of scholars and activists working on the theme of the rise of the BRICS countries and middle income countries (MICs) and its implications for global agrarian transformations, the "BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies" or BICAS, and the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiatives or ERPI that explores the relationship between the rise of contemporary right-wing populism and the rural world. Finally, in collaboration with PLAAS in South Africa, YARA (Young African Researchers in Agriculture Network), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), COHD, and CASAS (Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists in the South) he is co-organizing the JPS Annual Writeshop intended for young researchers from the Global South.

Among his concluded research undertakings was the project entitled, "Climate change mitigation policies, land grabbing and conflict in fragile states: understanding intersections, exploring transformations in Myanmar and Cambodia" (2014-2018, www.iss.nl/mosaic). The project was funded by the Dutch NWO.

He has an ongoing research on the politics of crop booms and migrant farmworkers inside China (Yunnan and Guangxi) and in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Philippines) - and the links between these societies in terms of natural resource flows, labour regimes, investments, infrastructures, technology, together with research teams from COHD of China Agricultural University, Myanmar team of the Transnational Institute (TNI), and University of Hanoi.

He is part of an ongoing research team anchored by FIAN-International carrying out research in Mali (with Via Campesina's CNOP) and Nigeria (with Friends of the Earth's ERA) on the intersection between climate change politics, resource grabbing, conflict and political contestations; in a major research project funded by IDRC (2018-2020).

He has an ongoing action research initiative on the agrarian sociology and political economy of the rise in popularity of the Camino de Santiago (Camino Frances -- southern France/Northern Spain), in collaboration with community activists and several academic researchers. 

His academic and activist work on land reform (in the Philippines and internationally) resulted in several publications, including the 2007 monograph Pro-poor Land Reform: A Critique, and the twin volumes Competing views and stategies on agrarian reform (vol 1: Philippine perspective; vol 2: International persepective) that won the 2009 National Book Awards (Social Sciences) in the Philippines. 

He has taught at the graduate level in the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, China, Switzerland, Portugal and Finland on the politics of agrarian transformation. He is on the Advisory Board of Malmon at the University of Lisbon; Austrian Science Fund-supported Young Independent Research Group, “Exploring values-based modes of production & consumption in the corporate food regime” at Universitat Innsbruck; ACKnowl-EJ (Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice) at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB); LANDac - the Netherlands Land Academy at Utrecht University; DEMETER Project of the Geneva Graduate Institute; GLOCON (Global Change-Local Conflicts) Research Group at Free University of Berlin; Steering Committee member of Dialogue on Transformation; PUSKAHAP -Center for Agrarian Reform and Peasant Rights Studies in Indonesia of the University of North Sumatra (USU); an associate at The Hugo Observatory (Environment, Migration, Politics) at the University of Liege, Belgium; and sits on the board of the Philippine NGO RIGHTS. 

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Agrarian Change, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Alternatives Sud, Third World Quarterly, Russian Journal of Peasant Studies, and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Development Perspectives. He is a series (co-)editor of: (a) Routledge book series in Critical Agrarian Studies, (b) ICAS book series: 'small books on big ideas' in 'agrarian change & peasant studies' agrarian change available in multiple language editions, and (c) on the advisory board of Cambridge University Press Global Development Studies (Elements) Series. 

He is currently (co-)supervising several PhD researchers and is working with a number of post-doctoral fellows. At ISS, he is part of the Political Ecology (PE) Research Group and the teaching Major Agrarian, Food & Environmental Studies (AFES). At the Transnational Institute (TNI) he is part of the global fellowship as well as the Agrarian & Environmental Justice (AEJ) Program.

He studied MA and PhD in development studies at ISS. Both his MA (1997) and PhD (2004) theses were carried out under the supervision of Professors Cristobal Kay and Ben White. He was a post-doctoral fellow at ISS in 2004-2006, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Canada in 2007-2010, before returning to ISS in the beginning of 2011. 

He is included in the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List (2018, 2019, 2020), and has been awarded the 2020 Ester Boserup Prize for research on development.

      • M. Edelman & S.M. Borras (2018). マーク・エデルマン/ サトゥルニーノ・ボラスJr. （監訳：舩田クラーセンさやか、訳：岡田ロマンアルカラ佳奈）『国境を越える農民運動ー世界を変える草の根のダイナミクス』明石書店 (Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements) (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies, 5). Tokyo: Akashi Shoten
      • M. Edelman & S.M. Borras (2018). Movimientos agrarios transnacionales: historia, organizacion y politicas de lucha. (Serie de Estudios sobre Cambios Agrarios y Estudios del Campesino (ICAS), 5). Barcelona: Icaria
      • M. Edelman, R. Hall, S.M. Borras, I. Scoones, B. White & W. Wolford (2017). Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'. London: Routledge
      • M. Edelman & S.M. Borras (2016). Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series, 5). Halifax: Fernwood
      • S.M. Borras (2008). Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform ¿ volume 2: Philippine Perspective. Honolulu, Manila: University of Hawaii Press, Ateneo de Manila University Press. Winner, National Book Award (Social Sciences), Philippines, 2009
      • S.M. Borras (2008). Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform ¿ volume 1: International Perspective. Honolulu, Manila: University of Hawaii Press, Ateneo de Manila University Press. Winner, National Book Award (Social Sciences), Philippines, 2009
      • S.M. Borras (2007). Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique. Ottawa, Canada: University of Ottawa Press
      • S.M. Borras (2005). La Via Campesina: Potret Gerakan Tani Transnasional. Bandung: Garis Pergarakan
      • S.M. Borras (1999). The Bibingka Strategy in land Reform Implementation: Autonomous Peasant Movements and State Reformists in the Philippines. Manila: Institute for Popular Democracy

        • S.M. Borras, R. Hall, M. Spoor, H. Veltmeyer & J. Ye (2020). Foreword. In B. White (Ed.), Agriculture and the Generation Problem (ICAS small book series) (pp. ix-xi). Rugby, UK: Practical Action
        • S.M. Borras, T. Moreda, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (2019). Converging social justice issues and movements: implications for political actions and research. In T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (Eds.), Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements. London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2019). The challenge of locating land-based climate change mitigation and adaptation politics within a social justice perspective: towards an idea of agrarian climate justice. In T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (Eds.), Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements (Thirdworlds). London: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
        • B. Cousins, S.M. Borras, S. Sauer & J. Ye (2018). BRICS, middle-income countries (MICs), and global agrarian transformations: internal dynamics, regional trends, and international implications. In B. Cousins, S.M. Borras, S. Sauer & J. Ye (Eds.), BRICS and MICs: Implications for global agrarian transformation (Rethinking Globalizations) (pp. 1-11). Abington, UK: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, J. Liu, Z. Hu, L. Hua, C. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Franco & J. Ye (2018). Land control and crop booms inside China: implications for how we think about the global land rush. In B. Cousins, S.M. Borras, S. Sauer & J. Ye (Eds.), BRICS and MICs: Implications for Global Agrarian Transformation (Rethinking Globalizations) (pp. 134-167). Abington, UK: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, M. Edelman, R. Hall, W. Wolford, I. Scoones & B. White (2017). Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’. In M. Edelman, R. Hall, S.M. Borras, I. Scoones, B. White & W. Wolford (Eds.), Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below' (Critical Agrarian Studies) (pp. 1-21). Abington, Oxon, UK: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, M. Spoor & H. Veltmeyer (2017). Foreword. In Agrarian change, migration and development (pp. ix-xi). Halifax: Fernwood
        • M. Edelman, T. Weis, A. Baviskar, S.M. Borras, E. Holt-Gimenez, D. Kandiyoti & W. Wolford (2016). Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty. In M. Edelman (Ed.), Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty. Global Agrarian Transformations, Vol. 2 (Critical Agrarian Studies) (pp. 1-21). London: Routledge
        • C. Wang, S.M. Borras & C. Hunsberger (2016). Contemporary Agrarian Transformation and Rural Development: Large-Scale Land Investments and the Question of Labour. In A. Black (Ed.), Towards Employment-Intensive Growth in South Africa (pp. 156-176). Cape Town: University of Cape Town (UCT) Press
        • S.M. Borras, M. Spoor & H. Veltmeyer (2015). Series editors' foreword. In I. Scoones (Ed.), Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies series, 4) (pp. xiii-xv). Halifax, Winnipeg: Fernwood
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2015). Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'From Below'. In M Edelman, C Oya & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method (Thirdworlds) (pp. 207-232). Abingdon, UK: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2015). Food, Justice, and Land. In R.J. Herring (Ed.), Oxford Handbook on Food, Politics and Society (pp. 253-272). Oxford: Oxford University Press
        • M. Edelman, C. Oya & S.M. Borras (2015). Global Land Grabs: Historical Processes, Theoretical and Methodological Implications and Current Trajectories. In M. Edelman, C. Oya & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method (Thirdworlds) (pp. 1-15). London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2014). From Threat to Opportunity? Problems with Codes of Conduct for Land Grabbing. In N Lambek, P Claeys & A Wong (Eds.), Rethinking Food Systems: structural challenges, new strategies and the law (pp. 147-162). Springer
        • B. Mckay, A. Alonso Fradejas, C. Wang & S.M. Borras (2014). Contested Land Politics and Trajectories of Agrarian Change within an Emergent World Agro-commodity Regime: Insights from the BRICS and the Periphery. In W.D. Schanbacher (Ed.), The Global Food System: Issues and Solutions (pp. 211-242). Santa Barbara, California: Praeger
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, C. Kay & M. Spoor (2014). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean, viewed from a broader international perspective. In S. Gómez (Ed.), The Land Market in Latin America and the Caribbean: Concentration and Foreignization (pp. 21-58). Santiago: FAO
        • B.N.F. White, S.M. Borras & R. Hall (2014). Land Reform. In V. Desai (Ed.), Companion to Development Studies (pp. 260-265). London: Routledge
        • C. Hunsberger, S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco & C. Wang (2014). Large-Scale Land Transactions: Actors, Agency, Interactions. In K.C. Seto & A. Reenberg (Eds.), Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era (Strüngmann Forum Reports) (pp. 201-216). MA., USA: MIT Press
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco & C. Wang (2014). The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies. In M.E. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Land grabbing and Global governance (Rethinking Globalizations) (pp. 161-180). Abingdon, UK: Routledge
        • M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (2014). Introduction: Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives. In M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Land grabbing and Global governance (Rethinking Globalizations) (pp. 1-24). Abingdon, UK: Routledge
        • B.N.F. White, S.M. Borras & R. Hall (2014). Land Reform. In B. Currie-Alder (Ed.), International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects (pp. 479-494). Oxford: Oxford University Press
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco & C. Wang (2013). The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies. In M Margulis, N McKeon & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Land Grabbing and Global Governance (pp. 161-180). London and New York: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, S. Gomez, C. Kay & M. Spoor (2013). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean. In B. White, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & W. Wolford (Eds.), The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals (pp. 227-254). London, New York: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, M. Spoor & H. Veltmeyer (2013). Preface. In J.D. van der Ploeg (Ed.), Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Approach (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series) (pp. ix-x). Halifax, Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing
        • S.M. Borras, M. Spoor & H. Veltmeyer (2013). Preface. In P. McMichael (Ed.), Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies) (pp. xi-xii). Halifax, Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing
        • M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (2013). Introduction: Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives. In M Margulis, N Mckeon & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Land Grabbing and Global Governance (Rethinking Globalizations, 37) (pp. 1-24). London and New York: Routledge
        • B.N.F. White, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & W. Wolford (2013). The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. In B.N.F. White (Ed.), The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. London: Routledge
        • W. Wolford, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & B.N.F. White (2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. In Wendy Wolford et al. (Ed.), Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (pp. 1-22). UK: Wiley Blackwell
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, G.M. Gomez, C. Kay & M. Spoor (2013). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean. In B. White, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoone & W. Wolford (Eds.), The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals. London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras (2013). Foreword. In O Pye & J Bhattacharya (Eds.), The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational Perspective (pp. vii-xii). Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
        • J.D. van der Ploeg, J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (2013). Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe: an overview. In J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (Eds.), Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe (pp. 1-24). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, C. Kay & M. Spoor (2013). El acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina y el Caribe visto desde una perspectiva internacional más amplia. In F. Soto Baquero & S. Gómez (Eds.), Reflexiones sobre la concentracion y extranjerizacion de la tierra en America Latina y el Caribe (pp. 15-68). Santiago, Chile: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2013). Philippines: antecedents et defis des mouvements paysans contemporains. In L. Deccourt (Ed.), Etat des resistances dans le Sud: Les mouvements paysans (Alternatives Sud, Volume 20-2013/4) (pp. 205-213). Paris: Centre Trocontinental et Editions Syllepse
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2012). Land Use. In H.K. Anheier & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
        • S.M. Borras (2011). Políticas contemporáneas sobre tierra y luchas por la tierra. In H. Veltmeyer (Ed.), Herramientas para el cambio: Manual para los estudios críticos del desarrollo (pp. 259-261). La Paz, Bolivia: Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo Universidad Mayor de San Andrés; Plural Editores
        • S.M. Borras, P. McMichael & I. Scoones (2011). The politics of biofuels and agrarian change: an introduction. In S.M. Borras, P. McMichael & I. Scoones (Eds.), The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change (pp. 1-18). London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras (2011). Contemporary land policies and land struggles. In H. Veltmeyer (Ed.), The Critical Development Studies: Tools for Change (pp. 178-180). London: Pluto
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2011). Redistributing land in the Philippines: social movements and state reformers. In J. Gaventa & R. McGee (Eds.), Citizen Action and National Policy Making Change Happen (pp. 69-88). London: Zed
        • S.M. Borras (2010). Transnational Agrarian Movements Campaigning for Land and Citizenship Rights. In J. Gaventa & R. Tandon (Eds.), Globalizing citizens the new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. London: Zed
        • S.M. Borras, M. Edelman & C. Kay (2010). Gerakan-gerakan agraria transnasional: Asal-Muasal, Politik, Kampanye dan Pengaruhnya. In S.M. Borras, M. Edelman & C. Kay (Eds.), Gerakan-Gerakan Agraria Transnasional. Yogyakarta: STPN Press
        • A.H. Akram-Lodhi, S.M. Borras & C. Kay (2007). Neoliberal globalization, land and poverty: implications for public action. In A.H. Akram-Lodhi, S.M. Borras & C. Kay (Eds.), Land, poverty and livelihoods in an era of globalization : perspectives from developing and transition countries (pp. 383-398). London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, D. Carranza & R. Reyes (2007). Land, poverty and state-society interaction in the Philippines. In A.H. Akram-Lodhi, S.M. Borras & C. Kay (Eds.), Land, poverty and livelihoods in an era of globalization : perspectives from developing and transition countries (pp. 119-151). London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras, C. Kay & A.H. Akram-Lodhi (2007). Agrarian Reform and Rural Development: Historical Overview and Current Issues. In A.H. Akram-Lodhi, S.M. Borras & C. Kay (Eds.), Land, poverty and livelihoods in an era of globalization : perspectives from developing and transition countries (pp. 1-40). London: Routledge
        • S.M. Borras (2006). The Underlying Assumptions, Theory, and Practice of Neoliberal Land Policies. In P. Rosset, R. Patel & M. Courville (Eds.), Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform (pp. 99-128). Oakland: Food First Books
        • S.M. Borras (2006). Integración regional y competencia en el sureste asiático; persistente pobreza y desigualdad en Filipinas: consideraciones desde el campo. In M. Spoor & S. Golden (Eds.), Regionalismo y desarrollo en asia: procesos, modelos y tendencias (pp. 133-165). Barcelona: CIDOB with Ediciones Bellatera
        • S.M. Borras (2006). É possível implementar a reforma redistributiva através de esquemas de transferência voluntária de terra com base no mercado? Evidências e lições das Filipinas. In S. Sauer & J.M. Mendes Pereira (Eds.), Capturando a terra: Banco Mundial, políticas neoliberais e reforma agrária de mercado (pp. 131-167). Sao Paulo: Editora Expressão Popular
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2005). Conclusion : Current Dilemmas and Challenges. In J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (Eds.), On just grounds : struggling for agrarian justice and citizenship rights in the rural Philippines (pp. 263-302). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI)
        • J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (2005). Editors' Introduction : Changing Patterns in Peasant Mobilizations for Land and Democracy. In J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (Eds.), On just grounds : struggling for agrarian justice and citizenship rights in the rural Philippines (pp. 1-44). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI)
        • J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (2005). Perubahan Pola-pola Mobilisasi Petani untuk Tanah dan Demokrasi di Filipina. In N. Fauzi (Ed.), Gerakan-gerakan Rakyat Dunia Ketiga (pp. 227-276). Yogyakarta: Resistbook
        • S.M. Borras (2005). Markets, Land Redistribution and Rural Social Movements in the Philippines. In K.B. Ghimire (Ed.), Civil society and the market question : dynamics of rural development and popular mobilization (pp. 227-270). New York: Macmillan/Palgrave Press
        • S.M. Borras (2001). Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Relatively Vibrant Land Redistribution Amidst Less-Than-Dynamic Agricultural Transformation. In H. Morales & J. Putzel (Eds.), Power in the Village: Agrarian Reform, Rural Politics, Institutional Change and Globalization (pp. 245-322). Manila: University of the Philippines Press

        • S.M. Borras (2017). Resource conflict and democratic land governance. In The state of conflict and violence in Asia (pp. 240-249). Bangkok: Asia Foundation

      • T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso-Fradejas & Z. Brent (Ed.). (2019). Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements. (Third World Quarterly Books). London: Routledge
      • B. Cousins, S.M. Borras, S. Sauer & J. Ye (Ed.). (2018). BRICS and MICs: implications for global agrarian transformation. London: Routledge
      • M. Edelman, R. Hall, S.M. Borras, I. Scoones, B. White & W. Wolford (Ed.). (2017). Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below' (Critical Agrarian Studies). Abington, Oxon, UK: Routledge
      • M. Edelman, C. Oya & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2016). Global Land Grabs History, Theory and Method. London: Routledge
      • M. Edelman, J.C. Scott, A. Baviskar, S.M. Borras, D. Kandiyoti, E. Holt-Gimenez, T. Weis & W. Wolford (Ed.). (2015). Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty (Global Agrarian Transformations, 2). London: Routledge
      • M. Edelman, C. Oya & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2015). Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method (ThirdWorlds). London: Routledge
      • M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2014). Land Grabbing and Global Governance (Rethinking Globalizations). Abingdon, UK: Routledge
      • M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2013). Land Grabbing and Global Governance. London: Routledge
      • B. White, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & W. Wolford (Ed.). (2013). The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals. London: Routledge
      • W. Wolford, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & B. White (Ed.). (2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. London: Wiley
      • S.M. Borras, W. Wolford, R. Hall, I. Scoones & B.N.F. White (Ed.). (2013). Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. UK: Wiley Blackwell
      • S.M. Borras, M.E. Margulis & N. McKeon (Ed.). (2013). Land grabbing and global governance. London: Routledge
      • B.N.F. White, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & W. Wolford (Ed.). (2013). The political economy of contemporary corporate land deals. London: Routledge
      • J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2013). Land grabbing, land concentration and people’s resistance in Europe. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
      • W. Wolford, S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones & B.N.F. White (Ed.). (2013). Development and Change special issue Vol. 44, No. 2: Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
      • M. Margulis, N. McKeon & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2013). Land grabbing and global governance. London: Globalizations journal special issue
      • S.M. Borras, P. McMichael & I. Scoones (Ed.). (2011). Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change. London: Routledge
      • S.M. Borras, P. McMichael & I. Scoones (Ed.). (2011). The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change. London: Routledge
      • S.M. Borras, M. Edelman, C. Kay, D. Yunuardy & V.T. Septianty (Ed.). (2010). Gerakan-gerakan agraria transnasional. Yogyakarta: STPN Press
      • S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2009). Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies (Critical Agrarian Studies). London: Routledge
      • S.M. Borras, E. Lahiff & C. Kay (Ed.). (2008). Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Critical Reflections on Neoliberal Land Policies and the Rural Poor. London: Routledge
      • S.M. Borras, M. Edelman & C. Kay (Ed.). (2008). Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
      • H. Akram-Lodhi, S.M. Borras & C. Kay (Ed.). (2007). Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization: perspectives from developing and transition countries. London: Routledge
      • J.C. Franco & S.M. Borras (Ed.). (2005). On Just Grounds: Struggling for Agrarian Justice and Citizenship Rights in the Rural Philippines. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI), in collaboration with Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD), Manila

      • S.M. Borras (2004). Book Reviews [Bespreking van de boeken Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure under Neo-Liberalism & Land and Sustainable Livelihood in Latin America]. Development and Change, 35, 1095-1097.

      • T. Moreda, S.M. Borras, A. Alonso Fradejas & Z. Brent (Eds.). (2018-2018) Third World Quarterly, 39 (7)(Special Issue: Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements).
      • B. Cousins, S.M. Borras, S. Sauer & J. Ye (Eds.). (2018-2018) Globalizations, 15(no. 1).
      • E. Corbera, C. Hunsberger, C. Vaddanaphuti & S.M. Borras (Eds.). (2017-2017) Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 38(3).
      • M. Edelman, J.C. Scott, A. Baviskar, S.M. Borras, D. Kandiyoti, E. Holt-Gimenez, T. Weis & W. Wolford (Eds.). (2014-2014) Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6).
      • M. Edelman, C. Oya & S.M. Borras (Eds.). (2013-2014) Third World Quarterly, 34(9).
      • S.M. Borras, C. Kay, S. Gomez & J. Wilkinson (Eds.). (2012-2012) Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 33(4).

        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2018). Agrarian climate justice: Imperative and opportunity. (Preprints). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI)
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, S. Ngwe, T. Zhin, Y. Myint, C.M. Park, M. Barbesgaard & Y. Sekine (2018). The twin challenge of agrarian and climate justice: connections and contradictions between climate change mitigation politics, land grabbing and conflict in Myanmar. (Preprints). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI)
        • C. Hunsberger, E. Corbera & S.M. Borras (2016). Land-based Climate Change Mitigation policies, land grabbing and conflict: understanding intersections and linkages, exploring actions for change. (Preprints). : The hague: ISS; Chiang Mai University Working Paper Series
        • C. Hunsberger, E. Corbera, S.M. Borras, R. De la Rosa, V. Eang, J.C. Franco, R. Herre, . Sai Sam Kham, C.M. Park, D. Pred, . Heng Sokheng, M. Spoor, . Shwe Thein, . Kyaw Thu, . Ratha Thuon, C. Vaddhanaphuti, K. Woods & C. Work (2015). Land-based climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict: understanding intersection and linkages, exploring actions for change. (Preprints, MOSAIC Working Papers, no 1). The Hague; Chiang Mai (Thailand): International Institute of Social Studies (ISS); Chiang Mai University
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2012). A `Land Sovereignty¿ Alternative? Towards a Peoples¿ Counter-Enclosure. (Extern rapport). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2012). ¿La `soberanía de la tierra¿ como alternativa? Hacia un contracercamiento de los pueblos. (Extern rapport). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco & C. Wang (2012). Tendencias políticas en disputa para la gobernanza global del acaparamiento de tierras. (Extern rapport). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2011). Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building: critical issues for discussion. Bonn: Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)
        • C. Toulmin, P. Bindraban, S.M. Borras, E. Mwangi & S. Sauer (2011). Land tenure and international investments in agriculture: a report by the FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. (Extern rapport, HLPE Report, no 2). Rome: FAO
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2011). Political Dynamics of Land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe¿s Role. (Extern rapport). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2009). Transnational Agrarian Movements Campaigning for Land and Citizenship Rights. (Preprints). Brighton, Sussex, UK: IDS Working Paper No. 323, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
        • S.M. Borras (2006). Land, Empowerment and the Rural Poor: Challenges to Civil Society and Development Agencies. Rome: IFAD
        • S.M. Borras & T. McKinley (2006). The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond the State-Led and Market-Led Models (International Poverty Centre (IPC-UNDP) Policy Paper Series No. 2). Brasilia: International Poverty Centre of the UNDP
        • S.M. Borras (2004). La Via Campesina: An Evolving Transnational Social Movement. (Extern rapport, TNI Briefing Series, no 6). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI)
        • S.M. Borras & E. Gutierrez (2004). The Moro Conflict: Landlessness and Misdirected State Policies. (East-West Center Washington Policy Studies Series, no 8). Washington DC: East-West Center Washington
        • S.M. Borras (1999). The Difficult Challenge of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in Commercial Plantations. (Extern rapport). Quezon City: U.N.FAO-SARC/TSARRD Programme; Office of the Secretary, DAR; Project Development Institute (PDI)
        • S.M. Borras (1999). Interrogating CARP Scope: Toward a Better Understanding of CARP's Land Redistribution and Acquisition Balance. (Extern rapport). Quezon City: U.N.FAO-SARC/TSARRD Programme; Office of the Secretary, Department of Agrarian Reform
        • S.M. Borras (1998). The Difficult Challenge of Land Redistribution and Acquisition in Coconut Lands. (Extern rapport). Quezon City: U.N.FAO-SARC/TSARRD Programme; Office of the Secretary, DAR; Project Development Institute (PDI)
        • S.M. Borras (1998). The Bibingka Strategy to Land Reform and Implementation: Autonomous Peasant Mobilisations and State Reformists in the Philippines. (ISS Working Papers, General Series, no 274). The Hague: ISS

      • S.M. Borras. Rethinking redistributive land reform: land and power in the Philippines. ISS (Maastricht: Shaker Publishers) Prom./coprom.: prof.dr. B.N.F. White & prof.dr. C. Kay.
      • S.M. Borras. Rethinking Redistributive Land Reform: Struggles for Land and Power in the Philippines. Maastricht (373 pag.) (Maastricht: Shaker Publishing) Prom./coprom.: .

        • S.M. Borras (2018). Understanding and Subverting Contemporary Right-wing Populism: preliminary notes from a critical agrarian perspective. 'Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World': International conference organised by the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI): The Hague (2018, maart 17 - 2018, maart 18). [go to publisher's site]
        • S. Sauer & S.M. Borras (2014). International investments, agricultural boom crops and commodities, and green grabbing in Latin America.
        • S.M. Borras, C. Hunsberger, J. Franco & C. Wang (2012). New actors and political agency: political interactions and the variable outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions. Paper presented at the Ernst Strüngmann Forum: Frankfurt (2012, september 23 - 2012, september 28).
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, C. Hunsberger & C. Wang (2012). State-capital alliance in contemporary land grabbing. Paper presented at the ‘Global Land Grabbing Conference II: Ithaca, NY (2012, oktober 17 - 2012, oktober 19).
        • C. Wang, S.M. Borras & C. Hunsberger (2012). Contemporary agrarian transformation and rural development: large-scale land investments and the question of labour. Paper for the University of Cape Town, South Africa, SANPAD Project Workshop: Cape Town.
        • S.M. Borras, J.C. Franco, C. Kay & M. Spoor (2011). Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean viewed from broader international perspectives. Conference of Land Grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Santiago, Chile (2011, november 14 - 2011, november 15).
        • S.M. Borras & J.C. Franco (2006). Rural Citizens Participation in National Policy Making and Implementation Process: The Case of Land Reform in the Philippines. Paper presented at the Workshop on Citizens Participation and National Policy Change: Johannesburg, South Africa (2006, november 1 - 2006, november 3).
        • S.M. Borras (2005). Southeast Asian Regional Integration and Competition and the Persistent Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines: A View from the Countryside. Paper presented at the conference on 'Regionalismo y Desarrollo en Asia: Modelos, Tendencias y Procesos': Barcelona (2005, juli 4 - 2005, juli 5).
        • S.M. Borras, C. Kay & A.H. Akram-Lodhi (2005). Agrarian Reform and Rural Development: Historical Overview and Current Issues. Paper presented at the international conference on 'Land, Poverty and Public Action: Comparative Perspectives': The Hague, Netherlands (2006, januari 14 - 2006, januari 17).
        • S.M. Borras, R. Reyes & D. Carranza (2005). Land, Poverty and State-Society Relations in the Philippines. Paper presented at the international conference on 'Land, Poverty and Public Action: Comparative Perspectives': The Hague (2006, januari 14 - 2006, januari 17).
        • A.H. Akram-Lodhi, C. Kay & S.M. Borras (2005). Land, Poverty and Public Action: Implications for the Agrarian Question in an Era of Globalization. Paper presented at the international conference on 'Land, Poverty and Public Action: Comparative Perspectives': The Hague (2006, januari 14 - 2006, januari 17).
        • S.M. Borras (2004). Questioning the Official CARP Land Distribution Accomplishment and Scope. Paper presented at a national forum in the University of the Philippines in February 2005: Manila.
        • S.M. Borras (2001). The Divisive Impact of Market Friendly Land Transfer Schemes on Rural Social Movements: Experience from the Philippines. Paper commissioned by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) for its research project on 'State, market, and civil society on rural development': Geneva.
        • S.M. Borras (2001). Agrarian Reform, Rural Development and Democratization in the Philippines: Problems, Prospects and Challenges. Policy Paper commissioned by the Inter-Church Organization for Development and Cooperation (ICCO): Zeist.

  • 4150 Political Economy

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    4150 Political Economy
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    2020

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    4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation

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    4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
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