Life on the land: New lives for agrarian questions
Abstract
The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work ofending colonialism run square through questions of land. Theclassical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a newintensity. We look at four dimensions of the agrarian questiontoday: urbanization and labor; care and social reproduction;financialization and global food systems; and social movements.On this 50th anniversary of JPS, we as the journal’s editors invitemore research, vigorous debate, and scholar-activism on theseissues in agrarian politics and beyond. We move into the journal’snext era hoping we might continue to better interpret the worldin order to change it..