Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles

Abstract

You'll hear the term 'instant classic' used to refer to Borras and Franco's profound meditation on the role of academics working with movements for agrarian change.It's true that this short book will immediately and deservedly become part of the critical agrarian studies canon, but it's also a work that's far from instant.It draws on decades of combined scholarship and activism, at the highest levels and with the highest stakes.The result is a distillation of two lifetimes' work,

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