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Peasant Movements and the Fourth Transformation in Mexico: What Does the Theory of Collective Empowerment Tell Us?

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
wiley   +1 more source

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Wind: Mapping Externalities and Their Role in Shaping Willingness To Pay for Wind Energy

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTWind power plays a central role in global low‐carbon energy transitions, offering significant environmental benefits through reduced greenhouse gas emissions and decreased reliance on fossil fuels. Yet, local opposition to wind projects persists, often driven by perceived externalities affecting communities and landscapes. This study conducts a
Gianluigi De Pascale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Bond Paper Topics, Journal Metrics and Post‐publication Diffusion

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green bonds are important financial instruments in sustainable finance, generating a rapidly expanding academic literature. This paper identifies the topics analyzed in green bond academic research and examines how these topics are associated with journal and post‐publication diffusion metrics. Using 1048 paper abstracts published between 2015
Paraic McGee, Tom Egan, Sheila O'Donohoe
wiley   +1 more source

Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kim YM, Dahlke R, Song H, Heinrich R.
europepmc   +1 more source

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