1st Edition
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
1. Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies: Changes, Continuities and Challenges – an Introduction Saturnino M. Borras Jr, editor of JPS (Saint Mary’s University, Canada)
2. The Landlord Class, Peasant Differentiation, Class Struggle and the Transition to Capitalism: England, France and Prussia Compared Terence J. Byres, emeritus professor, SOAS, University of London (founding editor of JPS)
3. V. I. Lenin and A. V. Chayanov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Henry Bernstein, professor, SOAS, ex-editor of JPS
4. Chayanov’s Treble Death and Tenuous Resurrection Teodor Shanin, emeritus professor, Manchester University; President, Moscow Social Science Institute (founding editor of JPS)
5. Development Strategies and Rural Development: Exploring Synergies, Eradicating Poverty Cristóbal Kay, professor, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Hague
6. A Food Regime Genealogy Philip McMichael, professor, Cornell University, NY
7. Livelihoods Perspectives and Rural Development Ian Scoones, Professor, IDS Sussex
8. Engendering the Political Economy of Agrarian Change Shahra Razavi, research coordinator, UN Research Institute for Social Devt (UNRISD), Geneva
9. Everyday Politics in Peasant Societies (and Ours) Benedict Kerkvliet, emeritus professor, Australian National University
10. Synergies and Tensions between Rural Social Movements and Professional Researchers Marc Edelman, professor, Hunter College and City University of New York
Biography
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been deeply involved in rural social movements in internationally since the early 1980s. He is a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based international think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) and of the Oakland-based Food First/Development Policy Institute. He is the Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. His books include Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique (2007) and Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization (2008, with M. Edelman and C. Kay as co-editors).
