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{"title":"Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey","authors":"Sinem Kavak","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2259809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2259809","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it combines agrarian political economy analysis with human-nature interactions. Through an analysis of cash crop production and urban-rural interactions, this contribution argues that capitalist agrarian transformation in Turkey led to the emergence of an ‘urban middle class with peasant characteristics’, with a strong capacity for mobilisation and alliance-building. It also argues that this group enabled abstraction, place-framing and aestheticised resistance, common elements we observe in contemporary territorial mobilisations.","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations: tracking the Plantationocene in Lugela district, Mozambique","authors":"Anselmo Matusse","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2225423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2225423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis research conducted between June 2016 and April 2018 employs ethnographic research, archival sources, and observations to reveal the emergence of the Plantationocene in Mozambique's Lugela district. It explores how historical exploitation and governance of land and people by colonial companies, specifically Société du Madal, have influenced the current plantation regime. By focusing on a MHL rubber plantation in the postcolonial era, the article exposes how the plantation revitalizes colonial methods of racist capital accumulation. The study highlights the detrimental effects of large-scale plantations on rural communities, including marginalization, dispossession, displacement, and the objectification of people and landscapes as mere commodities for capital accumulation. Additionally, it emphasizes how these projects impose new labour relations, racialized identities, and geographies, perpetuating the remnants of colonialism while endorsing a neoliberal framework that further deepens existing inequalities.KEYWORDS: Plantationocenedispossessionstea plantationsrubber plantationsMozambiquecolonialityextractivismmodernisation AcknowledgementsThis research results from my PhD studies which were funded by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) and Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA). The fieldwork was funded by the National Geographic Society (NGS), grant number HJ-050ER-17. Part of the writing process happened under the INTPART postdoctoral visit at the University of Oslo, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. I would also like to thank the two anonymous peer-reviewers who provided invaluable comments to earlier versions of this text.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Geographic Society Education Foundation: [grant no (#HJ-040ER-17)]; National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)-Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA): [grant no (#APS16/1048).]; INTPART project Strengthening Environmental Anthropology Research and Education Through Interdisciplinary Methods and Collaborations.: [grant no 2022].Notes on contributorsAnselmo MatusseAnselmo Matusse is an anthropologist, National Geographic Explorer, and Researcher at Bloco 4 Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language Teaching and Anthropology from Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, and a master’s in environmental science from TEMA at Linköping University, Sweden. He holds another master’s degree in Digital Humanities from Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is finishing his third master’s in Higher Education Teaching and Researching at Malmö University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Anthropology within the Environmental Humanities South (EHS) research cluster at the University of Cape Town. Through the ontologies of Mount Mabo communit","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134887157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda","authors":"Jonathan Goodhand, Teo Ballvé, Patrick Meehan","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808","url":null,"abstract":"A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the same, and nor are the ‘illicit peasantries’ who inhabit the ‘narco-frontier’. In this article we explore the complex dialectical relations between frontiers, drug economies, illicit peasantries and peasant politics. In doing so we develop a new comparative framework, that provides a heuristic for studying the commonalities and differences across narco-frontiers and the mechanisms behind these differences.","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia <b>The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia</b> , by John F. McCarthy, Andrew McWilliam, and Gerben Nooteboom, Singapore, National University of Singapore Press, 2022, 472 pp., $32, ISBN: 978-981-325-183-0","authors":"Jop Koopman","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2258801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258801","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Paradox of Agrarian Change: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia.\" The Journal of Peasant Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"59 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Whose security? Politics, risks and alternatives for climate security practices in agrarian-environmental perspectives","authors":"Corinne Lamain","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2246386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2246386","url":null,"abstract":"Climate security, albeit highly contested, is moving beyond the discursive realm into policies and practices that implicate the control of land, water and forests. Through a systematic literature review this paper offers a typology of climate security practices. It observes a shift towards human security framing, offering potential for agrarian struggles. However, risks remain: the depoliticisation of scarcity, control-seeking over natural resources, a push for neoliberal approaches, a dominant focus on violent conflict, and knowledge politics. Alternative approaches are suggested, foregrounding place-specific alliances that address the politics of conflict and embrace plurality of knowledges, contributing to (agrarian) climate justice.","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Real estate oligarchs: elites and the urbanization of the land question in El Salvador","authors":"Julio Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2252758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2252758","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article explores the role of business elites in the conversion of rural landscapes into urban real estate in El Salvador. By analyzing elites’ imaginaries of development and strategies of dispossession, it examines the underlying rationalities that have driven rural-to-urban transformations since the postwar process of deagrarianization in the 1990s. I argue that elites have shifted their relationship with land from one centered international commodity markets to one focused on the establishment of rent-extractive property relations. In the context of financialization, this shift shapes much of the new dynamics on land and water grabbing in rural environments.KEYWORDS: Real estate; elites; urbanization; global land grabs; financialization; El Salvador AcknowledgementsI would like to express my appreciation to the anonymous reviewers for all their comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank all the people in El Salvador who made this research project possible. Thanks also to the members of my doctoral committee at UNC-Chapel Hill and to all my peers and mentors at the JPS Writeshop 2022 who contributed to this paper with their comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Decrees 747 (1991), 14 (1995), and 719 (1996) all make changes to restrictions previously made by the 1980s agrarian reform to prevent reversals of land redistribution.2 The case of El Espino is a famous one given its connection to the Dueñas family, one of the oldest families of the Salvadoran elite. Since the early years of the agrarian reform, the family implemented a series of legal tactics to recuperate the control of the estate. Ultimately, they managed to recuperate one portion and the rest was gradually sold by the cooperative’s administrative council to various real estate developers. See Labrador (Citation2014).3 This is revealed by one of the real estate executives involve in the project. See Audiovisuales UCA. ‘FIHIDRO. Agua segura ¿para quién?,’ April 17, 2010. https://youtu.be/LrzOAaY7wwA4 Centro Nacional de Registros. ‘Registro de otros documentos.’5 Imprenta Nacional. ‘Reforma a la ordenanza municipal para la regulación de los usos del suelo y las actuaciones urbanísticas del municipio de Nuevo Cuscatlán,’ Diario Oficial de El Salvador, 5 de abril del 2013. Web, URL https://imprentanacional.gob.sv/ (Accessed June 2019).6 Just in 2014, the town of Nuevo Cuscatlán granted the right of 1493 tap water connections to three luxury real estate projects. Despite the incomplete status of these projects, the amounts of water reserved for them was enough to serve at least 5000 people, approximately 45% of Nuevo Cuscatlán’s total population. For a detailed account on Bukele’s process of water grabbing in Nuevo Cuscatlán see.7 DW. ‘El Salvador: desplazados en aras del turismo,’ January 15, 2020. https://www.dw.com/es/el-salvador-desplazados-en-aras-del-turismo/a-519702398 Instituto de Acceso a la Infor","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134970667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Healing Grounds: climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming","authors":"Walter Alberto Pengue","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2256680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2256680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’: harvest theft in a peasant community","authors":"Baran Karsak","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2256235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2256235","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies avocado theft in southern Turkey’s peasant communities, where a significant avocado market formed between 2010 and 2020. In the context of the country’s neoliberalized agricultural regime, avocado as a ‘high-value food’ became a lucrative alternative for farmers struggling with decreasing profits from traditional crops. This new market economically benefited larger farmers, while smallholders, hampered by market liberalization policies of the preceding decade, were left behind. This article employs two well-known concepts, ‘moral economy’ and ‘social banditry’, to unpack harvest theft as a community-level crisis in southern Turkey.","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Updating Karl Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ for critical agrarian studies","authors":"Philip McMichael","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2219978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2219978","url":null,"abstract":"Karl Polanyi’s concept of the ‘double movement’ refers to a reciprocal dialectic between market forces and social protections for citizens. It concerns ongoing struggle against individualization of people’s lives under capitalist marketization – which continues today. While Polanyi focused on protective responses to deepening commodification of land, labor, and money across the 1840s–1940s century, the ‘double movement’ remains in force in the contemporary neo-illiberal era, with notable significance for agrarian transformations. This essay reviews adaptations by agrarian counter-movements, NGOs, and analysts to new pressures on producers, farmworkers, Indigenous peoples, and landscapes across the world, and various associated interpretations and analyses.","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135402770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remaindered Life","authors":"Walden Bello","doi":"10.1080/03066150.2023.2212452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2212452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peasant Studies","volume":"13 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}