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| Journal of Agrarian Change | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of Agrarian Change |
| Discipline | Agricultural history; Rural sociology; Development studies |
| Abbreviation | J. Agrar. Change |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 2001–present |
| Issn | 1471-0358 |
Journal of Agrarian Change The Journal of Agrarian Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering agrarian studies, rural transformations, land tenure, peasant movements, and agricultural policy. It publishes research articles, review essays, and debates that intersect historical analyses, political economy, and comparative studies, engaging with scholars and institutions across regions such as India, China, Brazil, United States, and South Africa. Editors and contributors have included scholars affiliated with universities and organizations like University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and International Food Policy Research Institute.
The journal was established in 2001 through collaboration among scholars linked to institutions such as Institute of Development Studies, Institute of Economic Growth, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Oxford, and University of Manchester. Early editorial boards drew on networks connected to figures associated with E. P. Thompson, Eric Wolf, Ranajit Guha, Amiya Bagchi, and David Harvey who had shaped debates in agrarian history, Marxist historiography, and political economy. Its founding aimed to provide an outlet complementary to journals like Rural Sociology, World Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Economic Geography and to engage with policy communities including Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and Asian Development Bank. Over successive issues the journal expanded editorial links to regional centers such as University of Campinas, Peking University, University of the Philippines, Makerere University, and University of Nairobi.
The journal focuses on agrarian change in contexts ranging from the Industrial Revolution and Enclosure Acts in Great Britain to land reforms in Mexico, collectivization in the Soviet Union, and agrarian transitions in Vietnam and Ethiopia. Topics include land tenure and agrarian law as seen in debates over the Land Reform Act, water and irrigation projects linked to Three Gorges Dam and Green Revolution technologies promoted by Norman Borlaug, labor migrations associated with the Irish Famine, agrarian movements such as Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and commodity chains connecting to markets in London, New York City, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo. The journal engages with theoretical traditions from scholars like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Camillo Proni, Amartya Sen, and Michel Foucault while addressing institutional actors including United Nations, European Commission, African Union, and ASEAN.
The editorial board comprises academics and practitioners affiliated with universities and research centers including University of Sussex, University of Bonn, University of Wisconsin–Madison, National University of Singapore, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Australian National University. Editors manage submissions through a double-blind peer-review process that draws reviewers from networks linked to journals such as Development and Change, American Journal of Sociology, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Past & Present. Special issue editors have been associated with projects funded by bodies like Economic and Social Research Council, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, and National Science Foundation.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in major services and databases connected to scholarly infrastructure including Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, ProQuest, SSRN, and Google Scholar. Libraries and catalogues that list the journal include British Library, Library of Congress, Harvard Library, Bodleian Library, and National Library of China. Citation tracking for the journal appears in tools provided by Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier, and university repositories maintained by University of Cambridge Digital Library and MIT Libraries.
The journal has influenced debates within networks connected to agrarian studies, affecting policy discussions at Food and Agriculture Organization meetings, conferences hosted by International Institute of Social History, and sessions at academic gatherings like International Sociological Association and American Anthropological Association. Its articles are cited alongside works published in Journal of Peasant Studies, World Development, and texts by scholars such as V. I. Lenin (for historical analysis), Tariq Ali (for political commentary), Saskia Sassen (for global city connections), and Pankaj Mishra (for intellectual context). Impact metrics recorded in databases like Scopus and Web of Science show the journal as a key outlet in its field.
Notable contributions have included comparative studies of land reform drawing on cases from China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; analyses of rural labor in contexts like Bangladesh and Pakistan; and thematic issues on global commodity chains linking producers in Kenya and Ghana to retailers in United Kingdom and Germany. Special issues have tackled subjects tied to events and movements such as the Green Revolution, the Arab Spring, climate-linked agrarian change after Hurricane Katrina, and transitions following the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Contributors have included scholars with affiliations to Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, and University of Delhi.
The journal has been at the center of debates over methodological approaches—quantitative political economy versus ethnographic and historical methods—with clashes reflecting intellectual lineages from Fernand Braudel, Eric Hobsbawm, Martha Nussbaum, and Clifford Geertz. Editorial decisions on special issues have provoked discussion involving institutions like Cambridge University Press and funding bodies such as Open Society Foundations over questions of framing, regional representation, and interdisciplinarity. Debates have also emerged around the journal's coverage of contentious cases such as land grabs linked to investors from China Development Bank and corporations like Monsanto and Cargill, and policy implications discussed at forums convened by World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund.
Category:Academic journals Category:Rural studies journals Category:Development studies journals