Agrarian Change Seminars

  Term 1 2012-13

Journal of Agrarian Change and

Department of Development Studies, SOAS

Room 4418 (fourth floor, main building), SOAS

11 October, 5.15 pm

Documentary Film: 'Best Before: the London Food Revolution is a short documentary about the food system in the UK and the growing food movement in London'. Followed by discussion

Ben Mann, Director and SOAS alumni

18 October, 5.15 pm

Film: ‘Seeds of Freedom’, followed by discussion

African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation

25 October, 5.15 pm

Migration and rural differentiation in two selected villages in Bangladesh

Mausumi Mahapatro (SOAS)

9 -11 November: Agrarian Change panel at Historical Materialism Conference (SOAS, room and time to be announced):

Crises of labour in South Africa: what is the contribution of the agrarian question?

·      Land, Labour And The Production Of Affliction In Rural Southern Africa – Bridget O’Laughlin (ISS, the Hague)

·      Smallholder irrigation, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from below’ in post-apartheid South Africa – Ben Cousins (PLAAS, Western Cape)

·      Commercial agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘natural, simply capitalism’ – Henry Bernstein (SOAS)

29 November, 5.15 pm

The agrarian question and 150 years of class conflicts over property rights in rural Brazil and Mexico

Leandro Vergara-Camus (SOAS)

6 December, 5.15 pm

Monthly income... What is that? Comparing notes on implementing household surveys in rural Mozambique

Helena Perez-Nino and Sara Stevano (SOAS)