9 articles in this issue
Samantha Fox
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Farshad Araghi, Marina Karides
Andrew K. Jorgenson, James Rice
We utilize first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slumprevalence on national level measures of under-5 mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005.Utilizing data on 80 less developed countries, the results illustr... see more
Charles Geisler
Extraterritorial ownership and control of sub-Saharan African land have a long and troubledhistory. This research investigates a much-studied practicethe recent enclosure of African landand resourcesbut asks a little-studied question: how are non-Africans... see more
Phillip A. Hough, Jennifer Bair
For more than a decade, social scientists have been analyzing the implications of the neoliberalturn in development policy and the implications of market-led agrarian reform for agriculturalproducers in the global South. Among this work is a spate of rece... see more
Astra Bonini
During the post-war period, natural resource production has often been associated withperipheralization in the world-economy. This paper seeks to demonstrate that this associationdoes not hold when examined from a long-term perspective, and explains the c... see more
Immanuel Wallerstein
The coming into existence of the capitalist world-economy created new constraints on utilizingthe land for productive purposes. The single most important change is that it established asystematic legal basis for what is called title to the land. Title to ... see more
Ganesh K. Trichur
This paper highlights contemporary Chinas long-term continuities with the historical EastAsian developmental path in relation to its post-1978 revival of market-economy traditions. Therevival of market economy traditions does not exemplify the unfolding o... see more
Ben Scully
This article presents a comparison of central debates in South African labor sociology in the1970s and the contemporary era. I argue that scholars can break through impasses in currentlabor sociology debates by reviving attention to the land-labor-livelih... see more