publication

Life on the land new lives for agrarian questions

Authors:
Shaila Seshia Galvin
Annie SHATTUCK
Jacobo GRAJALES
Ricardo JACOBS
Sergio SAUER
Ruth HALL
2023
The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work of ending colonialism run square through questions of land. The classical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a new intensity. We look at four dimensions of the agrarian question today: urbanization and labor; care and social reproduction; financialization and global food systems; and social movements. On this 50th anniversary of JPS, we as the journal's editors invite more research, vigorous debate, and scholar-activism on these issues in agrarian politics and beyond. We move into the journal’s next era hoping we might continue to better interpret the world in order to change it.