Agrarian Change Seminars
The Agrarian Change Seminars are organised by the Journal of Agrarian Change and the Department of Development Studies, SOAS. They take place every two weeks during terms 1 & 2, with speakers examining agrarian issues across the developing world.
Entrance is free and open to the public.
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Enrique Castañón Ballivián (SOAS)
13 November 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFarm workers in the land grab: evidence from Uganda and Tanzania
Elisa Greco (Catholic University of Lille, France)
30 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMRural class formation and accumulation from below: artisanal gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo
Ben Radley (LSE)
23 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMRebuilding ‘RiskScapes’: post-flood Kerala 2018
Ravi Raman (State Planning Board, Kerala, India)
9 October 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 AMGavin Smith (University of Toronto)
13 March 2019, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian transition and development in an age of globalised inequality:some questions from Africa
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
12 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMClimate change and the ‘New Green Revolution’ in India
Marcus Taylor (Queen’s University, Canada)
26 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMMuhammad Ali Jan (Oxford)
6 February 2019, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMRural peace in Colombia: new peasantries and socio-territorial movements
Kyla Sankey (Queen Mary, University of London)
30 January 2019, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMClass, politics and agrarian policies in post-liberalisation India
Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University)
Has there been a shift in agrarian policies in India since liberalisation? What has been the impact of agrarian policies on class formation? Did proprietary classes with close relations to the state influence the formulation of these policies? Are class–state relations uniform across nations under globalisation?
17 January 2019, 21/22 Russell Square, T102, 6:00 PM - 7:45 PMAgroecological alternatives to Brazil’s Green Revolution: which territorial development?
Les Levidow (Open University)
5 December 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMWomen's Work in Mozambique: Gender Relations, Social
Sara Stevano (University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol)
28 November 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMCaste, Class and Agrarian Transition in Western Tamil Nadu, India
Judith Heyer (Oxford)
14 November 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMProfiting from Instability? Traders, Farmers and Inequality in US
Joseph Baines (King’s College London)
How does the financialization of food, and associated price instability, impact inequality within US agriculture?
31 October 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMClass differentiation and agricultural dynamics without expenditure
Martin Prowse
How do we approach class differentiation and agricultural dynamics using existing datasets in Sub-Saharan Africa?
24 October 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMHow Lives Change: Seven Decades of the village Palanpur, India
Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
17 October 2018, Faber Building, 23/24 Russell Square, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMArnaud Kaba (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Toulouse)
This paper compares rural migrants working in flyover construction yards in and around Bhopal and urban men working in the metal workshops of Bhopal’s Old City.
16 May 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, Room G51a (ground floor, main building), 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMJoseph Baines (King's College London)
7 March 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMContract Farming in Global Production Networks: The Case of Tobacco in Southern Africa
Helena Pérez Niño (SOAS)
21 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMShapan Adnan (Independent Scholar, formerly National University of Singapore)
7 February 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFood Import Dependency in Cuba: still the Achilles Heel of the Revolution?
Elisa Botella Rodríguez (University of Salamanca)
24 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMGeorge Kunnath (Oxford)
17 January 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMJames Brown (SOAS)
6 December 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, MB G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMRegina Hansda (Newcastle University)
22 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, MB G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe peasant "problem" in the Russian revolution(s), 1905-1929 - Henry Bernstein
Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
15 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, MB G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMJournal of Agrarian Change roundtable: The Political Economy of Land and the Colombian Peace Process
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín (Observatorio de Restitución de Tierras and Universidad Nacional de Colombia) - Mauricio Velásquez Ospina (Universidad de los Andes/ UCLA) - Christopher Cramer (SOAS) - Chaired by Helena Pérez Niño (SOAS)
9 November 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51a, 4:15 PM - 6:00 PMLorena Lombardozzi (SOAS)
25 October 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, MB G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMWorld Farm, World Factory: Town, Country, and Climate in the Rise - Jason W. Moore
Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University)
11 October 2017, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SWLT, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State, Market and Citizens
Ruth Hall
17 May 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMKarin Kapadia
10 May 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLeandro Vergara-Camus
3 May 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Agrarian Political Economy of Left-wing Governments in Latin
Leandro Vergara-Camus
8 March 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Accumulation in Neoliberal India: Farmers, Traders and the
Shreya Sinha
The seminar explores how accumulation takes place and how it relates to the local political economy, by focusing on the state of Punjab, the archetypal Green Revolution state of India
1 March 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMWhy Do Countries Differ in Adoption of Agricultural Biotechnology?
Ronald Herring
8 February 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLosing land, losing ground? Beyond the land rush in Northeastern
Christophe Gironde
25 January 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMBig and small tractors, pumpsets and transition: the role of rural
Stephen Biggs
18 January 2017, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Dialectics of the Chieftaincy: Rethinking Land and Authority in Africa’s Colonial Capitalisms
Gavin Capps (Witwatersrand)
16 November 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMPaul Richards (Njala University, Sierra Leone)
A Seminar by Paul Richards organised by the Journal of Agrarian Change and the Department of Development Studies, SOAS.
Is that tapping on the Plantation's Door? Labour regimes in the Liberian rubber commodity chain
Steffen Fischer (Queen Mary)
9 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMBook Launch: Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class Relational Approach
Jonathan Pattenden (University of East Anglia)
2 March 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe state of agribusiness in reform-era China: histories and trajectories
Mindi Schneider (International Institute of Social Studies [ISS], The Hague)
24 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe de facto privatization process of Chilika Lake, India
Matilde Adduci (University of Turin)
17 February 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe women ‘strike’ back: the Pembillai Orumai protest in the South Indian Tea Belt
Jayaseelan Raj (LSE)
27 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMClaudio Robles (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
20 January 2016, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMBOOK LAUNCH: Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries. Theory, Evidence
Carlos Oya (SOAS) and Nicola Pontara (World Bank)
9 December 2015, 30 Russell Square, 30 Russell Square, Room 102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMMen wielding the plough: changing patterns of production and
Marina Temudo (University of Lisbon)
25 November 2015, 30 Russell Square, 30 Russell Square, Room 102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMSubir Sinha (SOAS)
11 November 2015, 30 Russell Square, 30 Russell Square, Room 102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMSergio Schneider (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
21 October 2015, 30 Russell Square, 30 Russell Square, Room 102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMAgrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis
Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
7 October 2015, 30 Russell Square, 30 Russell Square, Room 102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMGoverning the worker’s body: food, health and work for female flower workers in Ethiopia
Deborah Johnston (SOAS)
12 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMPhil Woodhouse (Manchester)
5 March 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMProperty and Political Order in Africa: Land Regimes and the Structure of Politics
Catherine Boone (LSE)
26 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMInvesting in women to achieve food security? A study of women's work and food in northern Mozambique
Sara Stevano (SOAS)
19 February 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMOn the primacy of wage-labour: classes of labour and petty commodity production in Rural South India
Jonathan Pattenden (East Anglia)
22 January 2015, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLate developer? Afghanistan’s agrarian economy and its possibilities for transformation
Adam Pain (Uppsala)
4 December 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian transition: end of an idea?
Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
27 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAccumulation and control: capital, labour and the state in Ethiopia's coffee sector
Florian Schaefer (SOAS)
13 November 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe transformation of rural Bihar: Evidence from longitudinal research
Gerry Rodgers (Institute for Human Development, New Delhi)
30 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian class relations in India
VK Ramachandran (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru)
16 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLabour commodification and differentiation of the peasantry in Sierra Leone
Augustin Palliere (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre)
9 October 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe political ecology and political economy of the Indigenous land titling ‘revolution’ in Australia
Professor Jon Altman
26 June 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 273, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMAccumulation, class and power: rural capitalism in Pakistani Punjab
Muhammad Ali Jan (University of Oxford)
20 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFood for change: the politics and values of the alternative food movement
Peter Luetchford and Jeff Pratt (University of Sussex)
6 March 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Gender ‘question’ in agrarian reforms
Susie Jacobs (Manchester Metropolitan University)
20 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMSix decades of Palanpur: change and continuity in a North Indian village
Himanshu (Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME & PLACE
17 February 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 3:15 PM - 5:00 PMFood security and coping strategies in rural Bhutan: between self-interest and altruism
Akiko Ueda (Osaka University)
23 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda
Chris Cramer, Deborah Johnston and Carlos Oya (Development Studies, SOAS)
9 January 2014, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFrom Vegetable Plots to Volleyball Courts: Heritage and the 'Authentic' Peasant in Highland Ecuador
Emma-Jayne Abbots (University of Wales Trinity St David)
5 December 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFood sovereignty: a sceptical view
Henry Bernstein (Development Studies, SOAS)
28 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMSejuti Dasgupta (Development Studies, SOAS)
NB: This event has been POSTPONED until 21 November in solidarity with the joint UCU, UNISON and UNITE one-day strike
21 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe politics of property in industrial fisheries
Liam Campling (School of Business and Management, Queen Mary)
14 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Transition and Left Politics in India
Alpa Shah (LSE), Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford), Jens Lerche (SOAS), Subir Sinha (SOAS)
This event is part of Agrarian Change at Historical Materialism Conference
8 November 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 11:45 AM - 1:30 PMRegional patterns of agrarian accumulation in India
Jens Lerche (Development Studies, SOAS)
24 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe poultry transition in the Pacific Rim: food regimes and agrarian change
Jane Dixon (National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU)
10 October 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4426, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Tribal Question: Adivasis and the Maoist Movement in India
George Kunnath (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
14 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian systems and food provisioning strategies in rural South Africa
Elizabeth Hull (department of Anthropology, SOAS)
21 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe physical materiality of the Indian Rice Economy
Barbara Harriss-White (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
7 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe Changing Geography of Grain Cultivation in China and Its Environmental Impact
Chris Bramall (Department of Economics, SOAS)
24 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:05 PM - 6:30 PMBreaking Dependency and Monopolies: Post-1994 Rwanda's Liberalized Coffee Sector
Pritish Behuria (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
17 January 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMHelena Perez-Nino and Sara Stevano (SOAS)
Having recently returned from fieldwork in different provinces of Mozambique, two research students at SOAS discuss some of the methodological challenges and constraints of implementing household surveys.
6 December 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLeandro Vergara-Camus (SOAS)
29 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Change panel at Historical Materialism Conference
Bridget O’Laughlin (ISS, the Hague), Ben Cousins (PLAAS, Western Cape), Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
Crises of labour in South Africa: what is the contribution of the agrarian question?10 November 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 11:15 AM - 1:00 PMMigration and rural differentiation in two selected villages in Bangladesh
Mausumi Mahapatro (SOAS)
25 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAfrican Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation
18 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMBen Mann (Director and SOAS alumni)
Documentary Film: 'Best Before: the London Food Revolution is a short documentary about the food system in the UK and the growing food movement in London'. Followed by discussion.
11 October 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMExport agriculture, class relations and capitalist development in North East Brazil
Ben Selwyn (University of Sussex)
A book launch of Ben Selwyn’s ‘Workers, State and Development in North East Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value’ (Manchester University Press, 2012)
8 March 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMFacing fluidity and segmentation: Circulation and labour relations in rural Andhra Pradesh, India
David Picherit (Heidelberg and SOAS)
23 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMBurley tobacco and smallholder food security in Malawi 1990 - 2005
Martin Prowse (University of Antwerp)
2 February 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLiam Campling (Queen Mary, UoL)
26 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMThe new debate on primitive accumulation in India
Subir Sinha (SOAS)
19 January 2012, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Transformation in an Indian Maoist Guerrilla Zone
Alpa Shah (Goldsmiths)
1 December 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMColin Poulton (SOAS)
24 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMStingy patrons and fickle clients: the decline of patronage in the Pakistani Punjab
Nicolas Martin (LSE)
17 November 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLand, Labour and Dispossession: Some Results from a Resurvey of a Vidarbha Village, India
R Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
13 October 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLiam Campling (Queen Mary, University of London)
24 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 12:00 AMDoes it matter who grew the oats? Reflections on materiality and the agricultural labour process
Peter Mollinga (SOAS)
10 March 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 12:00 AMSalads, Sweat and Status: Migrant workers in UK horticulture
Donna Simpson (City University, London)
24 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 12:00 AMJames Copestake (University of Bath)
10 February 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 12:00 AMEdouard Morena (Kings’ College London)
27 January 2011, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4418, 5:15 PM - 12:00 AMEdouard Morena (Kings' College London)
9 December 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMNot working for export markets: work, agency and livelihoods in the Tiruppur textile region, India
Grace Carswell (University of Sussex)
25 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMClass Dynamics of Agrarian Change: Writing a Little Book on a Big Idea
Henry Bernstein (SOAS)
Book launch
4 November 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMBen Selwyn (University of Sussex)
28 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian Change, Gender Transformations and Poverty in Tanzania
Lucia Da Corta (ODI)
14 October 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMNew land, new livelihoods: agrarian change in Zimbabwe following land reform
Ian Scoones (IDS Sussex)
18 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMPublic Policy and Agricultural Development - Lessons from the History of Today's Rich Countries
Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge)
4 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMElena Baglioni (SOAS)
25 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMLabour in the World System: Plantation Capitalism in the Indian south
Ravi Raman (SOAS)
11 February 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421 (fourth floor), 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMStephen Biggs (UEA)
21 January 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421 (fourth floor, main building), 5:15 PM - 7:00 PMAgrarian change and development studies: exploring urban-rural linkages in development strategies
Professor Cristobal Kay, Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands
27 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMMigrant Workers in the ILO's 'Global Alliance Against Forced Labour' Report: A Critique
Dr Ben Rogaly, Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
27 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMGavin Capps, DESTIN, LSE
13 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMProfessor Tim Lang, City University London, Professor Philip McMichael, Political Institute for Global Development, Cornell University, Professor Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
7 November 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, TBC, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMLand, Community and Governance in West Africa
Kojo Amanor, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon
Kojo Amanor is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University (Smuts Commonwealth Fellowship).
30 October 2008, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM