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Overview

Philip McMichael is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in research within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Food Science.

The scientist's recent papers cover various aspects of food systems, agricultural policy, and political economy. Notable publications include:

  • Food, the State and the World Economy, 2021, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Shock and Awe in the UNFSS, 2021, Development
  • Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present, 2023, The Journal of Peasant Studies

Additional papers connected to their research interests, where they are listed among authors, include:

  • UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems, 2021, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • The Question of Food Security, 2020, International journal of sociology of agriculture and food

Frequent collaborators in their research include Matthew Canfield, Molly D. Anderson, Geoffrey Lawrence, Ronan Le Velly, and Annemarie Mol. These coauthors have contributed to various studies related to food security, sustainability, and agricultural sociology.

Philip McMichael's work appears regularly in a select group of academic journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • International journal of sociology of agriculture and food
  • Development

The main thematic areas addressed in their research are focused primarily on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, complemented by studies in Organic Food and Agriculture, and the intersections of Global Trade, Sustainability, and Social Impact. Political Economy and Marxism also constitute significant aspects of the scientist's work, alongside topics such as Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, International Development and Aid, and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability.

Best Publications

  • AGRICULTURE AND THE STATE SYSTEM: The rise and decline of national agricultures, 1870 to the present

    Harriet Friedma;Philip McMICHAEL

  • Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

    Philip McMichael

  • A food regime genealogy.

    Philip McMichael

  • The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring.

    Philip McMichael

  • Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method

    Philip McMichael

  • The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction

    Saturnino M. Borras;Philip McMichael;Ian Scoones

  • A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’

    Philip McMichael

  • Global Development and The Corporate Food Regime

    Philip McMichael

  • The Global Restructuring of Agro-food Systems

    Philip McMichael

  • Globalization : Myths and realities

    Philip McMichael

  • Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please . . .

    Philip Mcmichael

  • Deepening, and repairing, the metabolic rift.

    Mindi Schneider;Philip McMichael

  • The power of food

    Philip McMichael

  • Historicizing food sovereignty

    Philip McMichael

  • Peasant prospects in the neoliberal age

    Philip McMichael

  • Food Security Politics and the Millennium Development Goals

    Philip McMichael;Mindi Schneider

  • Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

    Philip McMichael

  • Value-chain Agriculture and Debt Relations: contradictory outcomes

    Philip Mcmichael

  • UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems

    Matthew Canfield;Molly D. Anderson;Philip McMichael

  • A Political Economy of the Food Riot

    Raj Patel;Philip McMichael

  • New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development

    Frederick H. Buttel;Philip McMichael

  • Doctrines of Development

    Philip McMichael;M. P. Cowen;R. W. Shenton

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Gerald R. Smith
Gerald R. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brenda B. Lin
Brenda B. Lin Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lawrence Busch
Lawrence Busch Michigan State University
Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore University of Oxford

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