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  1. Environmental populism in Central America: the politics of the pineapple expansion and its discontents in Costa Rica

    • Andrés León Araya
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    How does the growth of Costa Rica's pineapple production chime with its commitment to protect nature?

  2. Farmer & non-farmer responsibility to each other: notes on the tensions of US agricultural governance

    • Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    "If farmers expect society to help protect them against the crushing effect of surpluses, they must be prepared to protect society by working out permanent arrangements for storing of reserve food supplies. Both farmers and non-farmers have a responsibility to each other, and any dodging of this responsibility by either group is likely to end in disaster.” Former US secretary of agriculture Henry A. Wallace

  3. Wind energy development in Mexico: an authoritarian populist development project?

    • Gerardo A. Torres Contreras
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    What are the current context and consequences of Mexico's wind energy policy in the rural setting of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec?

  4. Organizing the slaves of the 21st century: Mexico’s first independent and democratic farmworker union fighting rural authoritarianism in the context of global capitalism

    • James Daria
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    What led the jornaleros of San Quintin who rose up in 2015 to declare they were tired of being the “slaves of the 21st Century”?

  5. Boomtown poison: Political culture under the shadow of lead poisoning in West Texas

    • Riad Azar
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    How is political culture produced and contested in a small working-class community in rural Texas?

  6. Revisiting power and powerlessness: Speculating West Virginia’s energy future and the externalities of the socioecologial fix

    • Dylan M. Harris, James McCarthy
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    Is external investment and dispossession in Appalachia a result of China's ‘socioecological fix’ to climatically precarious capitalist development?

  7. Populism v. neoliberalism: Indigeneity, territorial rights, and hegemony in Honduras

    • Fernando Galeana Rodriguez
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    How has the “populist” administration of Zelaya and the “neoliberal” administrations of Lobo and Hernandez dealt with the question of territorial rights in Mosquitia?

  8. Historical resistance for the defense of the land and the territory in the municipality of Cabrera, Colombia

    • Juanita Cuéllar Benavides
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    How has resistance in this region interacted with its past land struggles?

  9. Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds: Immigration, labour, and community building in rural northern Alabama

    • Brian Walter
    17 March 2018
    Paper

    How do white and Latinx community members in a rural Alabama town manage the tension between national and local, past and present discourses around race, community and belonging?

  10. The demise of emancipatory peasant politics? Indonesian fascism and the rise of islamic populism

    • Laksmi Savitri, Devi Adriyanti
    15 March 2018
    Paper

    How does the rise of Islamic populism in Indonesia signal a return of fascist ideologies and practices that use nationalism and religion as political instruments to clear a new pathway for capital accumulation?

  11. Drought and the lure of agrarian populism: The case of Malawi

    • Sören Köpke
    15 March 2018
    Paper

    How do Malawi's politicians exploit the frequent drought-induced food crises for their own political gains?

  12. The agrarian origins of authoritarian rural populism in the United States: what can we learn from 20th century struggles in California and the Midwest?

    • Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Maywa Montenegro, Alex Liebman, Siena Chrisman
    15 March 2018
    Paper

    Interrogating the politics of rural places in generating both support for and struggle against authoritarian populism.

  13. Authoritarian and paternalism in Indonesian peasant cooperative

    • Ciptaningrat Larastiti
    15 March 2018
    Paper

    This paper examines the dilemmas of a former plantation workers’ cooperative attempting to develop an egalitarian and self-managed agrarian community in the face of persistent military influence in Indonesian’s rural areas.

  14. Reserves for emancipatory politics in post-war northern Sri Lanka

    • Ahilan Kadirgamar , Niyanthini Kadirgamar
    11 March 2018
    Paper

    Situating questions about neoliberalism, nationalism and populism in Sri Lanka helps to broaden understanding of historical and political developments. Do neoliberal policies emerge in the West and then spread to the Global South, or do neoliberal policies evolve in confrontations with nationalist, populist and other political projects and go through considerable innovation in the Global South?