Journal of Peasant Studies

A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.

Journal of Peasant Studies（JPS）是农村政治与发展领域的领先期刊，它激发并促进了对农村世界的社会结构、机构、行动者和变革过程的批判性思考。它促进了对阶级和其他社会群体之间的土地权力关系如何建立、理解、竞争和转变的探究。JPS 特别关注农业社会中边缘群体的“代理”问题，特别是他们的自主权和解释（以及改变）其状况的能力。