Journal of Political Economy

Harare, 2014

Aims & Scope

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 🔗 is the official periodical publication of the Agrarian South Network (ASN), founded in 2012. It is published by the Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South (CARES), the ASN’s partner in India, and Sage India in New Delhi. The periodicity of the journal has been tri-annual in the first decade and quarterly as of 2023.

Agrarian South is a scientific, 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, labour, environmental, and development crises.

The journal encourages original approaches to the political economy of development and invites research on issues related to: land and agrarian reform; gender and labour relations; race, caste and indigeneity; rural and urban industrialization; global environmental change; sustainable use of natural resources; rural and urban popular movements; trends and trajectories in the world economy; and North-South relations.

The journal promotes research in the intellectual traditions of the Third World and is committed to the advancement of autonomous capacity and thinking in the regions of the South. The journal awards biennially the Samir Amin Young Scholars’ Prize in Political Economy of Development and co-sponsors, with SMAIAS, the annual Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture. The journal also organizes a permanent special section on Third World Legacies, dedicated to the intellectual traditions of the Third World. Special issues on specific themes are also organized every year, as well as occasional special sections.

The Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy can be accessed here 🔗.

The full list of articles published in Volumes 1-10 (2012-2021) can be accessed here 🔗.

Editorial Board

  • Sandeep Chachra (Managing Editor), CARES, India
  • Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Lyn Ossome, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Marcelo Rosa, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana, Ghana
  • Paris Yeros, Federal University of ABC, Brazil

Associate Editors

  • Max Ajl, Wageningen University, Netherlands
  • Walter Chambati, The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe
  • Agostina Costantino, National University of the South, Argentina
  • Ricardo Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Ng’wanza Kamata, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Thiago Lima, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
  • Giuliano Martiniello, International University of Rabat, Morocco
  • Abdourahmane Ndiaye, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France
  • Flavia Rios, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
  • Vitor Schincariol, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
  • Sit Tsui, Southwest University, China
  • Joseph Awetori Yaro, University of Ghana, Ghana

Editorial Assistants

  • Namrata Daniel, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Thailand
  • Manish Kumar, University of Delhi, India
  • Damián Lobos, National Institute of Agricultural Technologies, Argentina
  • Freedom Mazwi, The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe
  • Steven Mberi, The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe
  • Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, University of Ghana, Ghana

Advisory Board

  • Jimi O. Adesina, University of South Africa, South Africa
  • Kojo Amanor, University of Ghana, Ghana
  • Habib Ayeb, Université Paris 8, France
  • Clara Bellamy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
  • Antonádia Borges, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Merle L. Bowen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • C.P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Horman Chitonge, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Deivison Mendes Faustino, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Bernardo M. Fernandes, State University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Mammadou Goïta, IRPAD/Afrique, Mali
  • Yao Graham, Third World Network Africa, Ghana
  • Fred Hendricks, Rhodes University, South Africa
  • Kin Chi Lau, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Amina Mama, University of California, USA
  • Mahmood Mamdani, Makerere University, Uganda
  • William Martin, SUNY Binghamton, USA
  • Zenebewerke Tadesse, independent consultant, Ethiopia
  • Carlos Eduardo Martins, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Marjorie Mbilinyi, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Marilda A. Menezes, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
  • Godwin Murunga, CODESRIA, Senegal
  • Francisco Nemenzo, University of Philippines, Philippines
  • Lungisile Ntsebeza, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Utsa Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • D.N. Reddy, University of Hyderabad, India
  • Ebrima Sall, Trust Africa, Senegal
  • Henry Saragih, Via Campesina, Indonesia
  • Sérgio Sauer, FUP/UnB, Brazil
  • Christoph Scherrer, University of Kassel, Germany
  • Beverly Silver, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram, International Islamic University, Malaysia
  • Wen Tiejun, Renmin University, China
  • Michael Witter, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Special Issues

Crisis and Global Transformation: What Role for Re-peasantization?2013
The Agrarian Question in the North: Contemporary Trends, Historic Challenges2015
Gender Relations and the Changing Agrarian Political Economies in the South2016
Remembering Sam Moyo: Intellectual Formation and Contributions2016
Labour Questions in the Global South2017
Revolution and Liberation: 100 Years since the October Revolution, 50 Years since the Arusha Declaration2017
Social Movements in the Global South2018
Global Agricultural Value Systems: Trends and Alternatives2019
Tribute to Samir Amin: The Return of Fascism and the Challenge of Delinking2020
Women’s Liberation and Agrarian Transitions in the Global South2021
Race, Caste, Ethnicity and Indigeneity in the Global South2022
Pathways to Ecological Transition – Part I 🔗2023

Special Sections

Special sections are organized occasionally on specific themes.

The ‘New’ Scramble for Africa and the ‘New’ Bandung2014
Third World LegaciesPermanent
The Politics of Food Sovereignty in South America2018
Spectres of Crisis, Rays of Hope2020-21
Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform at Twenty Years2021

Third World Legacies

Third World Legacies was initiated in 2018 as a permanent Special Section devoted to key thinkers and ideas that have contributed to the intellectual heritage of the Third World. The first article in this section was Sam Moyo’s tribute to Archie Mafeje, published posthumously.

Additional articles in intellectual history appearing in other sections of the journal are included here for the benefit of our readers.

Samir Amin Prize

Aims & Eligibility

The Samir Amin Young Scholars’ Prize in Political Economy of Development was instituted by the Editorial Board of Agrarian South in honour of Amin’s outstanding intellectual achievements. Amin’s path-breaking contributions to the study of the world economy and the challenges faced by the peoples of the South have been a vital inspiration to generations of intellectuals and popular movements.

Amin’s lifelong efforts to establish the conditions for autonomous intellectual work in the South have been a source of encouragement and support to our Network. Amin was a committed supporter of our periodical journal, Agrarian South.

The Prize is awarded every two years to an author whose article has been published in the journal and is either a postgraduate student or received a postgraduate degree (Masters or Doctorate) within five years of publication of the article. Eligible articles must be single-authored.

Prize winners

Manish Kumar, India’s Rice Export: What is in it for Farmers? 🔗2018-19
Fabiano Escher, Class Dynamics of Rural Transformation in Brazil: A Critical Assessment of the Current Agrarian Debate 🔗2020-21

Editors’ Choice, Vols. 1–10 (2012–21)