Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy is the official periodical publication of the Agrarian South Network (ASN), a tri-continental association of researchers and institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean. The journal is published tri-annually (April, August and December) by the Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South (CARES), the ASN affiliate in India. The ASN is based at the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies in Zimbabwe.
Agrarian South is an interdisciplinary journal which promotes innovative research on the political economy of world development and aims to contribute to global debates on the multi-faceted challenges of our times, namely the agrarian, environmental and development crises.
The journal encourages original approaches to the political economy of development and invites research on issues related to land and agrarian reform, gender and labour relations, race and caste in social transformation, rural and urban industrialization, global environmental change, sustainable use of natural resources, land and social movements, trends and trajectories in the world economy, and North-South relations.
The journal promotes research in the intellectual traditions of the Third World and is committed to the advancement of autonomous capacity and thinking in the South.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Agrarian South is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which promotes innovative research on the political economy of world development and aims to contribute to global debates on the multi-faceted challenges of our times, namely the agrarian, environmental and development crises.
The journal encourages original approaches to the political economy of development and is committed to the advancement of autonomous thinking in the South. The journal’s audience is the social science research community worldwide, as well as civil society activists and development practitioners.
The key thematic areas of concern for the journal are as follows:
• land and agrarian reforms in Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean;
• agrarian and labour relations in peripheral social formations;
• gender, race and caste in social transformation;
• experiences in rural and urban industrialization;
• monopoly capitalism, financialization and the world economy;
• agro-industrial value systems in the world economy;
• energy, consumption and climate change;
• sustainable use of land, energy and natural resources;
• land, indigenous and social movements in national and world politics;
• alternative strategies for a multipolar, just and sustainable world order.
The journal publishes articles, book reviews, review essays, briefings on current affairs, and reports on events. It also promotes selected debates by means of occasional special issues and sections, including a permanent special section on Third World legacies.
| Sam Moyo (late) | African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe |
| Praveen Jha | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Paris Yeros | Federal University of ABC, Brazil |
| Sandeep Chachra | Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South (CARES), New Delhi, India |
| Lyn Ossome | Institute for Economic Justice, South Africa |
| Archana Prasad | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Marcelo Rosa | Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Issa Shivji | University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Dzodzi Tsikata | University of Ghana, Ghana |
| Max Ajl | Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| Walter Chambati | The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe |
| Agostina Costantino | National University of the South, Argentina |
| Ricardo Jacobs | University of California Santa Barbara, USA |
| Ng’wanza Kamata | University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Thiago Lima | Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil |
| Giuliano Martiniello | American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| Abdourahmane Ndiaye | Bordeaux Montaigne University, France |
| Flavia Rios | Fluminense Federal University, Brazil |
| Vitor Schincariol | Federal University of ABC, Brazil |
| Sit Tsui | Southwest University, China |
| Joseph Awetori Yaro | University of Ghana, Ghana |
| Namrata Daniel | Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Thailand |
| Manish Kumar | University of Delhi, India |
| Damián Lobos | National Institute of Agricultural Technologies, Argentina |
| Freedom Mazwi | The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe |
| Steven Mberi | The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe |
| Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey | University of Ghana, Ghana |
| Jimi O Adesina | University of South Africa, South Africa |
| Kojo Amanor | University of Ghana, Ghana |
| Habib Ayeb | Université Paris 8, France |
| Clara Bellamy | National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico |
| Antonadia Borges | Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Merle L Bowen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA |
| C P Chandrasekhar | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Horman Chitonge | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Deivison Mendes Faustino | Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Bernardo M Fernandes | State University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Jayati Ghosh | University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA |
| Mammadou Goïta | IRPAD/Afrique, Mali |
| Yao Graham | Third World Network Africa, Ghana |
| Fred Hendricks | Rhodes University, South Africa |
| Kin Chi Lau | Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
| Amina Mama | University of California, USA |
| Mahmood Mamdani | Makerere Institute, Uganda |
| William Martin | SUNY Binghamton, USA |
| Carlos Eduardo Martins | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Marjorie Mbilinyi | University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Marilda A Menezes | Federal University of ABC, Brazil |
| Godwin Murunga | CODESRIA, Senegal |
| Francisco Nemenzo | University of Philippines, Philippines |
| Lungisile Ntzebeza | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Prabhat Patnaik | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Utsa Patnaik | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| D.N. Reddy | University of Hyderabad, India |
| Ebrima Sall | Trust Africa, Senegal |
| Henry Saragih | Via Campesina, Indonesia |
| Sérgio Sauer | FUP/UnB, Brazil |
| Christoph Scherrer | University of Kassel, Germany |
| Beverly Silver | The Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Jomo Kwame Sundaram | International Islamic University, Malaysia |
| Zenebework Tadesse | Development Consultant, Ethiopia |
| Wen Tiejun | Renmin University, China |
Submission Guidelines for Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
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Submission Guidelines for Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
1. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy seeks to renew the debate on the agrarian question and respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century, namely the food, energy, climate and economic crises. The Journal aims to promote research on a variety of issues related to agrarian change, land use and global agriculture, while also contributing to the development of autonomous thinking in the South. The thematic areas, which the Journal deems fundamental, are:
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The role of rural and land movements in democratic, national and global struggles;
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The unequal integration of Southern societies and agricultures in the world system; and
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The construction of alternative development strategies towards a multipolar, just and sustainable world.
2. Submissions should be original contributions and should not be under consideration by any other publication.
3. Copyright of articles will be assigned to Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Contributors will receive a Copyright Assignment Form prior to publication, and are responsible for appropriate acknowledgement of sources used in the text, as well as for obtaining permission to reproduce material to which they do not own copyright. The submission will be considered as final only after the filled-in and signed copyright form is received.
4. The journal publishes articles, book reviews, review essays, briefings on current affairs by representatives of social movements, and reports on events. Articles, book reviews, and review essays should adhere to basic principles of scientific research. Articles should not exceed 8000 words, save for exceptional reasons, while book reviews and review essays should not exceed 800 and 2,000 words, respectively. Briefings and reports on events should not exceed 3,000 words.
5. All submissions must include an abstract of 150 words maximum, as well as five keywords for thematic indexing. On a separate page, authors must include their full name, current affiliation, and contact information. In case there are two or more authors, the corresponding author’s name and contact details should be clearly indicated on the first page. All documents should be scanned for viruses prior to sending.
6. All manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be addressed to The Journal Administrator.
- Citations and References Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) must be followed.
References: A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the article.
Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.
Chronological listing: If more than one work by the same author(s) is cited, they should be listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
Sentence case: In references, sentence case (only the first word and any proper noun are capitalized – e.g., ‘The software industry in India’) is to be followed for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.
Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case (first letter of all words except articles and conjunctions are capitalized – e.g., Journal of Business Ethics).
Italicize: Book and Journal titles are to be italicized.
Citations and References should adhere to the guidelines below (based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition). Some examples are given below:
- In-text citations:
One work by one author: (Kessler, 2003, p. 50) or ‘Kessler (2003) found that among the epidemiological samples..’.
One work by two authors: (Joreskog & Sorborn, 2007, pp. 50–66) or Joreskog and Sorborn (2007) found that..
One work by three or more authors: (Basu, Banerji & Chatterjee, 2007) [first instance]; Basu et al. (2007) [Second instance onwards].
Groups or organizations or universities: (University of Pittsburgh, 2007) or University of Pittsburgh (2007).
Authors with same surname: Include the initials in all the in-text citations even if the year of publication differs, e.g., (I. Light, 2006; M.A. Light, 2008).
Works with no identified author or anonymous author: Cite the first few words of the reference entry (title) and then the year, e.g., (‘Study finds’, 2007); (Anonymous, 1998).
If abbreviations are provided, then the style to be followed is: (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2003) in the first citation and (NIMH, 2003) in subsequent citations.
Two or more works by same author: (Gogel, 1990, 2006, in press)
Two or more works with different authors: (Gogel, 1996; Miller, 1999)
Secondary sources: Allport's diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003).
Films: (Name of the Director, Year of release)
- References:
Books:
Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
Edited Books:
Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.
Translated books:
Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York: Monthly Review Press.
Book chapters:
Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S. Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds), Reclaiming the nation (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.
Journal articles:
Foster, J.B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation. Monthly Review, 62(5), 1-17. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225 [DOI number optional]
Newsletter article, no author:
Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang initiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html
[Please do not place a period at the end of an online reference.]
Newspaper article:
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
In-press article:
Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf
Non-English reference book, title translated into English:
Real Academia Espanola. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (22nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Author.
Special issue or section in a journal:
Haney, C., & Wiener, R.L. (Eds) (2004). Capital punishment in the United States [Special Issue]. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10(4), 1-17.
7. The following styles should also be incorporated into the text:
(a) Endnotes should be short and kept to a minimum, using the endnote function of your word processor; endnotes must contain more than a mere reference.
(b) Single quotation marks should be used for quotations within the text, double quotes should be inserted within quotations where necessary (e.g., ‘the so-called “classical” agrarian question’), and quotations consisting more than 45 words should be indented from the margin without quotation marks;
(c) Paragraphs should be separated by a single space, without indentation;
(d) Use British spellings (rather than American): universal ‘z’ in ‘ize’ and ‘ization’ words;
(e) Use ibid. to denote an immediately prior citation;
(f) Graphs, tables, figures, etc. should be numbered and submitted in a separate file, not embedded in the text;
(g) Explain all acronyms;
(h) dates should appear as: 1 January 2011; 1990s (without apostrophe); twenty-first century’ decades (1960s);
(i) numbers from one to nine should be written out in words, 10 and above should be in numerals; percentages and decimals in figures, and fractions spelt out as one half, two-thirds, etc., numerical ranges (1965–1969 or 234–256).
8. Tables and figures should be inserted at appropriate places and titled and numbered (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Source for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions. Figures and tables should be provided in editable format.
9. All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi and 1500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavour).
10. The journal reserves the right to return submissions, which do not fall within the remit of the journal, which are not received according to the styles above, or which are insufficiently edited by the author.
Publication ethics
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