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Jun Borras

Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada, and a fellow of the Transnational Institute

Saturnino 'Jun' M Borras Jr. is a political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. Borras was part of the core organising team that established the international peasant movement La Via Campesina and has written extensively on land issues and agrarian movements. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS).

Rural social movements; food sovereignty

National Book Award (Social Sciences) in Philippines, 2009

English, Tagalog, Bicolano, Conversational Cebuano

Selected publications: 
Competing views and strategies on agrarian reform
Pro - Poor Land Reform: A Critique

Recent content by Jun Borras

Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance (12 Jan 2010)

The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land governance.

Agrarian change and peasant studies: changes, continuities and challenges (27 May 2009)

This special issue of Journal of Peasant Studies, edited by Jun Borras, is a collection of articles in “state of the art” format on key perspectives, frameworks and methodologies in agrarian change and peasant studies.

Agrarian change and peasant studies: changes, continuities and challenges – an introduction (27 May 2009)

The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and environmental – has put the nexus between 'rural development' and 'development in general' back onto the center stage of theoretical, policy and political agendas in the world today.

Transnational agrarian movements: struggling for land and citizenship rights (1 Apr 2009)
La Vía Campesina’s transnational campaign in protest against neoliberal land policies has helped to generate new meanings of global citizenship.

 

Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform (18 Jan 2009)

This book aims to deepen the discussion by focusing on the Philippine agrarian
reform experience, but drawing lessons that are relevant to
theory-building and to policy discourse and political actions in
situations elsewhere.

Competing views and strategies on agrarian reform (25 Jun 2008)

A detailed examination of the Philippine agrarian reform experience drawing lessons that are relevant to theory-building and to policy discourse and political actions in situations elsewhere.

Pro - Poor Land Reform: A Critique (13 Sep 2007)

Highly original analysis of the Philippine land reform experience

 
 
 
 

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