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Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies

Book review of Handbook of critical agrarian studies, A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi / Kristina Dietz / Bettina Engels / Ben M. Mckay (eds.), Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Edgar Publishing Limited in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, published 15.03.2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2472228
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The release of the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies (CAS) comes at a critical time for CAS scholars and scholar-activists. Even as CAS has emerged as a distinctive field of activist research in recent years, there remain significant uncertainties and unresolved tensions – both intellectual and political – among its many practitioners. As the Handbook’s editors highlight, this is to some extent inevitable given the diversity that has characterised the development of CAS, and is significantly responsible for its rapid and widespread acceptance. Nevertheless, they argue that it is possible to identify key shared aspects around which these otherwise diverse strands of research and activism come together and, in doing so, also lend CAS its distinctive character.[...]