Free Access: Recent Papers on Land Grabs and Critical Agrarian Studies in Colombia from JPS

In preparation for the upcoming Land Deal Politics Initiative Conference in Bogota, JPS is releasing a collection of articles on land and and deals from the past two years. Check out the collection below:

Land and Land Deals

Wendy W. Wolford, Ben White, Ian Scoones, Ruth Hall, Marc Edelman & Saturnino M. Borras (2024) Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2024.2325685

Saturnino M. Borras Jr. & Jennifer C. Franco (2024) Land rush, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2024.2317961

Julio Gutiérrez (2024) Real estate oligarchs: elites and the urbanization of the land question in El Salvador, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51:2, 489-511, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2252758

Christian Lund (2023) An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:4, 1295-1316, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2096448

Tsegaye Moreda (2023) Beyond land rights registration: understanding the mundane elements of land conflict in Ethiopia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:5, 1791-1819, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120813

Henry Veltmeyer & Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete (2023) Agro-extractivism, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:5, 1673-1686, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2218802

Paul Kohlbry (2023) To cover the land in green: rain-fed agriculture and anti-colonial land reclamation in Palestine, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:7, 2666-2684, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120807

Maritza Paredes & Anke Kaulard (2023) Forest as ‘nature’ or forest as territory? Knowledge, power, and climate change conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:6, 2210-2231, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2134010

Wolfram H. Dressler & Will Smith (2023) Blood, timber and plantations: the violence of enclosing lives and livelihoods in the Philippines, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:6, 2406-2436, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2086799

Rahma Hassan, Iben Nathan & Karuti Kanyinga (2023) Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:5, 1735-1756, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2119847

Tiantian Liu (2023) ‘Enclosure with Chinese characteristics’: a Polanyian approach to the origins and limits of land commodification in China, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:4, 1347-1375, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1979967

Miles Kenney-Lazar, Diana Suhardiman & Glenn Hunt (2023) The spatial politics of land policy reform in Myanmar and Laos, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:4, 1529-1548, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2054700

Andrés León Araya (2023) Monocrops, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:3, 797-808, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2174858

Jevgeniy Bluwstein & Connor Cavanagh (2023) Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5 °C Paris agreement target, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:1, 262-294, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2125386

Loka Ashwood, John Canfield, Madeleine Fairbairn & Kathryn De Master (2022) What owns the land: the corporate organization of farmland investment, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:2, 233-262, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1786813

Anja Nygren, Markus Kröger & Barry Gills (2022) Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:4, 734-759, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2069495

George T. Mudimu, Ting Zuo & Nkumbu Nalwimba (2022) Inside an enclave: the dynamics of capitalism and rural politics in a post-land reform context, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:1, 101-128, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1722106

Daniela Calmon (2022) Shifting frontiers: the making of Matopiba in Brazil and global redirected land use and control change, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:2, 263-287, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1824183

Critical agrarian studies and Colombia

Nicolás Acosta García & Fernando López Vega (2024) Oil and water: unlikely alliances in the opposition to extractive industries during popular consultations in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51:1, 237-257, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2214076

Angela Serrano (2023) Another palm is possible: small-scale palm oil farmers exercising autonomy in northeast Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2258813

Megan Dwyer Baumann (2023) Examining land rental markets’ linkages to land and water control in Colombia’s irrigation megaprojects: integrating the political economy of agrarian change and the political ecology of vulnerability, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:5, 1975-2001, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2082961

Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, Luis Castillo & Sebastián Cristancho-Bohada (2023) A political economy perspective on alternative development coalitions: the case of paramilitary territories in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2251407

Frances Thomson (2023) Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2224772

Rodrigo Castañeda, Carlos Avila Cerón, Ignacio De los Ríos-Carmenado, Larissa Domínguez & Sergio Gomez (2023) Implementing the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests from the working with people model: lessons from Colombia and Guatemala, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:5, 1820-1851, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120811

Katherine L. Turner, C. Julián Idrobo, Annette Aurélie Desmarais & Ana Maria Peredo (2022) Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: the role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:2, 402-428, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1786812

Jenniffer Vargas Reina (2022) Coalitions for land grabbing in wartime: state, paramilitaries and elites in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:2, 288-308, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1835870

Alejandro Camargo (2022) Imagined transitions: agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49:4, 713-733, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2059350

Jacobo Grajales (2021) Losing land in times of peace: post-war agrarian capitalism in Colombia and Côte d'Ivoire, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48:5, 1054-1074, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1691535

Eloisa Berman-Arévalo (2021) Mapping violent land orders: armed conflict, moral economies, and the trajectories of land occupation and dispossession in the Colombian Caribbean, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48:2, 349-367, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1655640

Diego Silva Garzón & Laura Gutiérrez Escobar (2020) Revolturas: resisting multinational seed corporations and legal seed regimes through seed-saving practices and activism in Colombia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 47:4, 674-699, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1668780