About the Volume Editors List of Contributors Foreword Ian Scoones Land and Social Life Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco 1. Marxism(s) and the Politics of Land Henry Bernstein 2. Land in World-Ecology Perspectives Raj Patel 3. Tracing the Land in Dependency and World-Systems Theories Max Ajl 4. Land in the Chayanovian Tradition Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 5. Land and Ecosocialism: In Defense of the Commons Hannah Holleman 6. Land in the Anarchist Tradition Andrej Grubacic, Julien-François Gerber, and Andro Rilovic 7. Land from Poststructuralist/Postdevelopment Perspectives Laura Gutierrez-Escobar 8. Land in Food Regimes Philip McMichael 9. A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland Control S. Ryan Isakson 10. The politics of land in a digital world Alistair Fraser 11. Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises: Access Failure Jesse Ribot 12. Agrarian Justice and Environmental Justice Joan Martinez-Alier 13. Socioecological Relations in Land Politics: An Assemblage Perspective Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio 14. Land, Industrial Livestock, and Interspecies Relations: The Pursuit of Scale and the Deceits of Productivity Tony Weis 15. Land and Agroecology: Interpenetrating Theses John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto 16. Beyond Land as Property: A Feminist Perspective Diana Ojeda 17. Land, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian Change Ben Cousins 18. Land Alienation, Proletarianization, and Changing Labor Market Regimes in Southern Africa Walter Chambati 19. Land Politics and Human Mobilities: Using the Land-Mobility Nexus as an Analytical Lens Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers 20. Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century Ricardo 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 Land Christian Lund 23. Land-Making as State-Making Nikita Sud 24. State, Land, and Citizenship Andrew Ofstehage and Wendy Wolford 25. Land in Violent Conflict Studies Jacobo Grajales and Jean-Pierre Chauveau 26. Struggles over Land under Customary Tenure in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa Pauline E. Peters 27. Tourism Troubles: The Intimate and Embodied Geographies of Land Grabbing in Panama Sharlene Mollett 28. Ethnic Politics and Land Grabbing Tsegaye Moreda 29. Ethnic Politics and Land Nguyet 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 Era Cristóbal Kay 31. Land and Geopolitics Michael Dwyer 32. Land Institutions and Agricultural Modernization in China Jingzhong Ye 33. China and Global Land Use Change Yunan Xu and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. 34. Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa Connor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen 35. The Politics of Resistance to Land Alienation Shapan 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 People Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.

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 research and social justice advocacy work.

Selling point: Offers a one-stop resource guide to key and competing theoretical perspectives, and land's connections to key spheres of social life Selling point: Wide scope encompassing various theoretical traditions and themes: food politics, climate change, labour, citizenship and geopolitics, as well as resistance to these Selling point: Written in an accessible manner, though at the same time challenges the reader to stretch the boundary of existing knowledge