Our 1st J of Agrarian Change seminar for this autumn is on 24 Oct., 5-7 pm UK time. Tomaz Fares (University of York) will present "China’s Internal Motives and Dynamics Behind Its Agricultural Investments in Brazil". for details and registration please go to: aqs.org.uk/event/chinas-i…

Launch of SI on Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change in J of Agrarian Change just before Historical Materialism Journal conference kicks off. With Sara Stevano & me as editors (with Lyn Ossome & Dr Hannah Bargawi), & Lorena Lombardozzi 🍉 https://bsky.app/profile/lor Cosku Celik Stha Yeni, China Sajadian as authors. All authors in🧵

Our smoking hot website on Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches is up! check us out at fuchsia-crane-xtkk.squarespace.com/about and soon our paper on Pluralising SRAs with @ShirinMRai and Sara Stevano and input by so many others will be out - check this space! <3

My book is out! Fictions of Financialization is a critique of ‘financialization’ discourses, and an effort to articulate a renewed Marxist perspective on the power of finance in capitalism. Just published with Pluto Press! plutobooks.com/9780745348896/…

Join us on Thursday for a great talk by Tomaz Fares who will delve into the motives and dynamics of Chinese investment in Brazil's agricultural sector. This J of Agrarian Change seminar is jointly organised by UCL Americas. Details and registration 👇🏾 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Looking for a great post doc to work with me at UC Berkeley on an Sloan Foundation-funded research projects focused on energy transition mineral development & water justice in the Great Basin. Deadline Oct 30. Plz share and apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04616

So very excited to finally share this open access paper in Geoforum, co-authored with my good (and very patient!) friend Kavindra (Ravi) Paranage 😃😃 UoM Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) POLLEN DevGeogsRG PolityLK Manchester Geography sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're glad to announce that the third blog post in our blog series celebrating 25 years of J of Agrarian Change is now live, this time with Ben Selwyn's take on 'Climate Breakdown, Green Transitions, Food and the Land Question'. aqs.org.uk/climate-breakd…

I illustrate the nature of agrarian classes with evidence from Palakurichi village in south India. Surveyed first in 1918 and most recently by FAS in 2019 Foundation for Agrarian Studies

The IIPPE Agrarian Change Working Group is delighted to announce its first online conference held on 11-12 Jun, 2025. This is a new initiative, in addition to the annual in-person conference. Deadline for submission, 17 March 2025. Details and updates on: iippe.org/agrarian-chang…

Our fifth blog post in the blog series celebrating 25 years of J of Agrarian Change is now live. It features Cosku Celik (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), who discusses "Classes of Extractive Labour under Authoritarian Neoliberalism". Please check it out on: aqs.org.uk/classes-of-ext…

Our latest paper engages Glenn Stone's theory of agricultural deskilling. It argues that farmer knowledge does not end at the edge of the field! Rather, we need a theory of agrarian skilling to capture the social dynamics of smallholder agriculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Open access article: What's the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies.

Very pleased to announce "How Is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?" open access forum with Kasia Paprocki Alejandro Camargo 𓆝 𓆜 𓆞 Megan Mills-Novoa and Suhas Bhasme. Part of the J of Agrarian Change 25th anniversary series. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…