The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics

Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He is a member of the distinguished Erasmus Professor Program at EUR, Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI). He was Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years, until 2023. He coordinates the international network Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and is a co-editor of its small books series in peasant studies and agrarian change. Jennifer C. Franco is a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), especially in the Agrarian and Environmental Justice Program and the Myanmar-In-Focus Program. She is Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University in Beijing. She does extensive work on land issues using a scholar-activist method of work both in researchand social justice advocacy work.

• About the Volume Editors List of Contributors ForewordIan Scoones Land and Social LifeSaturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco 1. Marxism(s) and the Politics of LandHenry Bernstein 2. Land in World-Ecology PerspectivesRaj Patel 3. Tracing the Land in Dependency and World-Systems TheoriesMax Ajl 4. Land in the Chayanovian TraditionJan Douwe van der Ploeg 5. Land and Ecosocialism: In Defense of the CommonsHannah Holleman 6. Land in the Anarchist TraditionAndrej Grubacic, Julien-François Gerber, and Andro Rilovic 7. Land from Poststructuralist/Postdevelopment PerspectivesLaura Gutierrez-Escobar 8. Land in Food RegimesPhilip McMichael 9. A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland ControlS. Ryan Isakson 10. The politics of land in a digital worldAlistair Fraser 11. Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises: Access FailureJesse Ribot 12. Agrarian Justice and Environmental JusticeJoan Martinez-Alier 13. Socioecological Relations in Land Politics: An Assemblage PerspectiveMarvin Joseph F. Montefrio 14. Land, Industrial Livestock, and Interspecies Relations: The Pursuit of Scale and the Deceits of ProductivityTony Weis 15. Land and Agroecology: Interpenetrating ThesesJohn Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto 16. Beyond Land as Property: A Feminist PerspectiveDiana Ojeda 17. Land, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian ChangeBen Cousins 18. Land Alienation, Proletarianization, and Changing Labor Market Regimes in Southern AfricaWalter Chambati 19. Land Politics and Human Mobilities: Using the Land-Mobility Nexus as an Analytical LensKei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers 20. Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st CenturyRicardo Jacobs 21. Contract Farming, Agribusiness, and Land in Africa: Empowering Farmers or Appropriating Resources and Value?Kojo S. Amanor 22. Public Authority, Property, and Citizenship: What We Talk about When We Talk about LandChristian Lund 23. Land-Making as State-MakingNikita Sud 24. State, Land, and CitizenshipAndrew Ofstehage and Wendy Wolford 25. Land in Violent Conflict StudiesJacobo Grajales and Jean-Pierre Chauveau 26. Struggles over Land under Customary Tenure in Contemporary Sub-Saharan AfricaPauline E. Peters 27. Tourism Troubles: The Intimate and Embodied Geographies of Land Grabbing in PanamaSharlene Mollett 28. Ethnic Politics and Land GrabbingTsegaye Moreda 29. Ethnic Politics and LandNguyet Bao Dang, Doi Ra, Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, and Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy 30. Land and National Development Strategies in the Cold War EraCristóbal Kay 31. Land and GeopoliticsMichael Dwyer 32. Land Institutions and Agricultural Modernization in ChinaJingzhong Ye 33. China and Global Land Use ChangeYunan Xu and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. 34. Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in AfricaConnor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen 35. The Politics of Resistance to Land AlienationShapan Adnan 36. Land Is a Human Right Priscilla Claeys, Lorenzo Cotula, Jérémie Gilbert, Christophe Golay, Miloon Kothari, and Veronica Torres-Marenco 37. Land Struggles and Working PeopleJennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.