''The Journal of Peasant Studies'', subtitled ''Critical Perspectives on Rural Politics and Development'', is a bimonthly

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covering research into the social structures, institutions, actors, and processes of change in the

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s of the

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. It is published by

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and the

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is Saturnino "Jun" Borras Jr. (

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Abstracting and indexing

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2013

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of 5.477, ranking it first out of 81 journals in the category "Anthropology" and first out of 55 journals in the category "Planning and Development".

History

The journal was an outgrowth of a 1972

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seminar on peasantries. It was established in 1973 with

Terence J. Byres Terence J. Byres is a peasant studies scholar and a professor emeritus of Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Byres was a founding editor of the '' Journal of Development Studies'' (1964), the '' ...

(1973–2000), Charles Curwen (1973–1984), and

Teodor Shanin Teodor Shanin (20 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best ...

(1973–1975) as founding editors-in-chief. Other past editors of the journal have been Henry Bernstein (1985–2000) and

Tom Brass Tom Brass is an academic who has written widely on peasant studies. For many years he was at the University of Cambridge as an affiliated lecturer in their Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and at Queens' College, Cambridge as their Dire ...

(1990–1998, 2000–2008). The current editor is Saturnino Borras, Jr.

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