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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
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Authorial and Responsive Discretion: Evaluative Authority and the Reorganization of Dependency

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dependency has long structured agrarian political economy, explaining how producers are embedded in markets, capital circuits and regulatory regimes. This paper argues that dependency remains indispensable yet analytically incomplete without attention to evaluative authority.
Michael Carolan
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An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
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Re‐Purposing Business Schools: Potential, Progress, and Precarity

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract With recent management studies of organizational purpose concentrating on the reactions of corporate elites to external change stimuli, little attention has been given to the emergent phenomenon of internally‐driven business school re‐purposing.
Martin Kitchener
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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge, Charlene Zietsma, Roy Suddaby, Rashedur Chowdhury, Christopher Wickert   +4 more
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