Agrarian South

Scope

Agrarian South is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which promotes innovative research on the political economy of world development and aims to contribute to global debates on the multi-faceted challenges of our times, namely the agrarian, environmental and development crises. The journal encourages original approaches to the political economy of development and is committed to the advancement of autonomous thinking in the South. The journal’s audience is the social science research community worldwide, as well as civil society activists and development practitioners. The key thematic areas of concern for the journal are as follows: • land and agrarian reforms in Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean; • agrarian and labour relations in peripheral social formations; • gender, race and caste in social transformation; • experiences in rural and urban industrialization; • monopoly capitalism, financialization and the world economy; • agro-industrial value systems in the world economy; • energy, consumption and climate change; • sustainable use of land, energy and natural resources; • land, indigenous and social movements in national and world politics; • alternative strategies for a multipolar, just and sustainable world order. The journal publishes articles, book reviews, review essays, briefings on current affairs, and reports on events. It also promotes selected debates by means of occasional special issues and sections, including a permanent special section on Third World legacies.