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Marc Edelman is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States and has a publication record primarily in social sciences, with a focus on topics related to agriculture, land use, and rural development. Their work spans several subfields including general agricultural and biological sciences, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, and strategy and management.

The main research topics covered by Marc Edelman include:

  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Doping in Sports
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements

Marc Edelman has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • From 'populist moment' to authoritarian era: challenges, dangers, possibilities, 2020, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Authoritarian populism and emancipatory politics in the rural United States, 2020, Journal of Rural Studies
  • Transnational Social Movements: Environmentalist, Indigenous, and Agrarian Visions for Planetary Futures, 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?, 2024, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to aJPSForum, 2021, The Journal of Peasant Studies

Frequent co-authors of Marc Edelman include:

  • John T. Holden
  • John Holden
  • Saturnino M. Borras
  • Ian Scoones
  • Wendy Wolford

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • Revista Colombiana de Antropología

Marc Edelman has also contributed to multiple book publications with the following publishers:

  • Cornell University Press eBooks, including three editions of Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century published in 2024
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Best Publications

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics

    Marc Edelman

  • Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’

    Ruth Hall;Marc Edelman;Saturnino M. Borras;Ian Scoones

  • Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica

    Marc Edelman

  • Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects

    Richard Sandbrook;Marc Edelman;Patrick Heller;Judith Teichman

  • Bringing the Moral Economy back in … to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements

    Marc Edelman

  • Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories

    Marc Edelman;Carlos Oya;Saturnino M Borras

  • Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism

    Ian Scoones;Marc Edelman;Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall

  • Food sovereignty: forgotten genealogies and future regulatory challenges

    Marc Edelman

  • Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation?

    Ruth Hall;Marc Edelman;Saturnino Borras jr.;Ian Scoones

  • Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty

    Marc Edelman;Tony Weis;Amita Baviskar;Saturnino M. Borras

  • Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics, Campaigns and Impact

    Saturnino M. Borras;Marc Edelman;Cristóbal Kay

  • Messy hectares: questions about the epistemology of land grabbing data.

    Marc Edelman

  • The anthropology of development and globalization : from classical political economy to contemporary neoliberalism

    Marc Edelman;Angelique Haugerud

  • Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization

    Saturnino M Borras;Marc Edelman;Cristóbal Kay

  • The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica Since the Late Nineteenth Century

    Marc Edelman

  • Cycles of Land Grabbing in Central America: an argument for history and a case study in the Bajo Aguán, Honduras

    Marc Edelman;Andrés León

  • TRANSNATIONAL PEASANT POLITICS IN CENTRAL AMERICA

    M. Edelman

  • Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: Histories, Challenges, Prospects

    Marc Edelman

  • Peasants' rights and the UN system: quixotic struggle? Or emancipatory idea whose time has come?

    Marc Edelman;Carwil James

  • Social Democracy in the Global Periphery

    Richard Sandbrook;Marc Edelman;Patrick Heller;Judith Teichman

  • The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique

    Marc Edelman;Paul Farmer;John Gledhill;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas

    Priscilla Claeys;Marc Edelman

  • Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

    Marc Edelman;Saturnino M. Borras

Frequent Co-Authors

Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University
John L. Comaroff
John L. Comaroff Harvard University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley
Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois University of California, Los Angeles
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society

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