Agrarian Change Seminars Term 2, 2018-19
SOAS Journal of Agrarian Change and Department of Development Studies, SOAS
Note weekly variations of seminar day and room
Thursday 17 January, 6pm, 22 Russell Square T102
Class, politics and agrarian policies in post-liberalisation India
Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University)
Wednesday 30 January, 5.15 pm, FG01 Faber Building
Rural peace in Colombia: new peasantries and socio-territorial movements Kyla Sankey (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday 6 February, 5.15 pm, FG01 Faber Building
Contradictions among the People: accumulation and the production of difference between tenants, peasants and landless labour in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Ali Jan (Oxford)
Development Studies Seminar Tuesday 26 February, 5pm, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), Main Building
Climate change and the ‘New Green Revolution’ in India
Marcus Taylor (Queen’s University, Canada)
Development Studies Seminar Tuesday 12 March 5pm, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), Main Building
Agrarian transition and development in an age of globalised inequality: some questions from Africa
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Wednesday 13 March, 5.15pm, FG01 Faber Building
Class struggle and social reproduction in the countryside and beyond: cases from Peru, Spain and Italy
Gavin Smith (University of Toronto)