Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Canada.

Joined January 2014
Open access: Contesting Central Asian hydro-hegemonies: state territorialisation and the Qosh Tepa Canal in Afghanistan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Our new paper offers a synthesis framework for analyzing transnational waterscapes; applies it to the Taliban's Qosh Tepa canal project
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The paper then reflects on the tensions and challenges inherent to cross-border water management in the Amu Darya watershed. Will the Qosh Tepa canal permanently rupture existing institutional arrangements/practices? What are the political economic and geopolitical ramifications?
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Very pleased to announce "How Is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?" open access forum with @KasiaPaprocki @prochilodus Megan Mills-Novoa and Suhas Bhasme. Part of the @AgrarianChange 25th anniversary series. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Our latest paper engages @glenndavisstone's theory of agricultural deskilling. It argues that farmer knowledge does not end at the edge of the field! Rather, we need a theory of agrarian skilling to capture the social dynamics of smallholder agriculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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Our fifth blog post in the blog series celebrating 25 years of @AgrarianChange is now live. It features @cosku_clk (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), who discusses "Classes of Extractive Labour under Authoritarian Neoliberalism". Please check it out on: aqs.org.uk/classes-of-extrac…
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The IIPPE Agrarian Change Working Group is delighted to announce its first online conference held on 11-12 Jun, 2025. This is a new initiative, in addition to the annual in-person conference. Deadline for submission, 17 March 2025. Details and updates on: iippe.org/agrarian-change/
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Please check out our new, open-access paper: "Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation" Newly published in Global Environmental Change @GEC_Journal with @sirieriksen7 @schipper_lisa @katharine_v et al. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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This forms a broad normative guide for adaptation planning, implementation and evaluation:
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The paper responds to our previous work on the driving forces of maladaptation within climate policy and planning: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I illustrate the nature of agrarian classes with evidence from Palakurichi village in south India. Surveyed first in 1918 and most recently by FAS in 2019 @fasagristudies
The blog series celebrating 25 years of @AgrarianChange continues. This time, in our fourth blog post, Prof. Madhura Swaminathan discusses 'Agrarian Classes in Contemporary India: Illustrations from a South Indian Village'. Please check it out on: aqs.org.uk/agrarian-classes-…
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We're glad to announce that the third blog post in our blog series celebrating 25 years of @AgrarianChange is now live, this time with Ben Selwyn's take on 'Climate Breakdown, Green Transitions, Food and the Land Question'. aqs.org.uk/climate-breakdown…
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Marcus Taylor retweeted
So very excited to finally share this open access paper in Geoforum, co-authored with my good (and very patient!) friend Kavindra (Ravi) Paranage 😃😃 @SERG_Geog_UoM @PolEcoNet @DevGeogsRG @Polity_LK @GeographyUOM sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Looking for a great post doc to work with me at UC Berkeley on an @SloanFoundation-funded research projects focused on energy transition mineral development & water justice in the Great Basin. Deadline Oct 30. Plz share and apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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Our smoking hot website on Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches is up! check us out at fuchsia-crane-xtkk.squarespa… and soon our paper on Pluralising SRAs with @ShirinMRai and @SaraStevano and input by so many others will be out - check this space! <3
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