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Overview

Henry Bernstein is affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies in the United Kingdom. The research work encompasses multiple areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on political economy and Marxism as well as issues related to agriculture, land use, and rural development.

Their main fields of study include Social Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Subfields span Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Finance, and General Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Political theory and Gramsci
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Bernstein has authored several recent papers in respected journals. Notable publications include:

  • "A brief history of commercial capitalism" (2021), published in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "Unpacking 'authoritarian populism' and rural politics: some comments on ERPI" (2020), published in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "Russian to modern world history: Teodor Shanin and peasant studies" (2021), published in Journal of Agrarian Change
  • "Classes of labour" (2025), published in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "Where is population in "surplus population"?" (2023), published in Focaal

Their publication record demonstrates frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Agrarian Change
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Focaal
  • Russian Peasant Studies

In addition to journal articles, Bernstein has published books, including a work titled Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change in 2021, released by Practical Action Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

    Henry Bernstein

  • Food sovereignty via the ‘peasant way’: a sceptical view

    Henry Bernstein

  • ‘Changing Before Our Very Eyes’: Agrarian Questions and the Politics of Land in Capitalism Today

    Henry Bernstein

  • African peasantries: A theoretical framework∗

    Henry Bernstein

  • Is There an Agrarian Question in the 21st Century

    Henry Bernstein

  • Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses

    Henry Bernstein;Ben Crow;Hazel Johnson

  • From Peasant Studies to Agrarian Change

    Henry Bernstein;Terence J. Byres

  • Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Sam Moyo;Paris Yeros;Henry Bernstein;Kojo Sebastian Amanor

  • Modernization theory and the sociological study of development

    Henry Bernstein

  • Notes on capital and peasantry

    Henry Bernstein

  • Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis

    Henry Bernstein

  • Agrarian questions then and now

    Henry Bernstein

  • Land Reform: Taking a Long(er) View

    Henry Bernstein

  • V.I. Lenin and A.V. Chayanov: looking back, looking forward

    Henry Bernstein

  • Commodity Studies and Commodity Fetishism I: Trading Down

    Henry Bernstein;Liam Campling

  • Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform in South Africa since 1994

    Bridget O'Laughlin;Henry Bernstein;Ben Cousins;Pauline E. Peters

  • Commercial Agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘Natural, Simply Capitalism’

    Henry Bernstein

  • The Food Question: Profits Versus People

    Henry Bernstein

  • The Origins of Third World Food Dependence

    H. Friedmann;H. Bernstein;B. Crow;M. Mackintosh

  • A brief history of commercial capitalism: by Jairus Banaji, Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2020, 197 pp., US$ 19.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781642591323

    Henry Bernstein;Henry Bernstein

  • 'The Peasantry' in Global Capitalism: Who, Where and Why?

    Henry Bernstein

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David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Tim Lang
Tim Lang City, University of London
Jane Dixon
Jane Dixon Australian National University
Stefano Ponte
Stefano Ponte Copenhagen Business School
Stewart Lockie
Stewart Lockie James Cook University
Brett Clark
Brett Clark University of Utah
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi Johns Hopkins University

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