Here is some my work on agrarian political economy and farmers’ protests.
Edited Volumes
Baviskar, Amita and Michael Levien. 2021. “Farmers’ Protests in India: Introduction to the JPS Forum.” Journal of Peasant Studies 48(7): 1341-1355.
Levien, Michael, Michael Watts, and Yan Hairong. 2018. “Agrarian Marxism.” Journal of Peasant Studies 45(5-6): 853-883.
Madeleine Fairbairn, Jonathan Fox, S. Ryan Isakson, Michael Levien, Nancy Peluso, Shahra Razavi, Ian Scoones, and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. 2015. Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1: New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy. London: Routledge.
Public Essays
Agarwal, Samantha and Michael Levien. 2024. “India’s Failed Agricultural Revolution.” Jacobin 54, Summer.
Levien, Michael. 2022. “Barrington Moore in Delhi? The Political Economy of the Indian Farmers’ Protest.” Critical Historical Sociology (Blog of the ASA Comparative Historical Section). November 29.
Book Reviews
Levien, Michael. 2020. Is this Azaadi? Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village by Anand Chakravarti. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61(2-3): 217-229.
Levien, Michael. 2013. The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era: Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry by Utsa Patnaik and Sam Moyo. Journal of Peasant Studies 40(1): 307-311.
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