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Wendy Wolford is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science, and Strategy and Management.

The primary research topics engaged by Wendy Wolford focus on Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development. Additional areas of interest include Political Economy and Marxism, Land Rights and Reforms, Global Trade, Sustainability and Social Impact, Anthropological Studies and Insights, Rural Development and Sustainability, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Publications by Wendy Wolford have appeared frequently in recognized academic venues. Key publication outlets include:

  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • International Migration
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wendy Wolford are:

  • "The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory" (2021), Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?" (2024), The Journal of Peasant Studies

Wendy Wolford has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Nancy Lee Peluso (6 joint publications)
  • Michael Goldman (5 joint publications)
  • Saturnino M. Borras (3 joint publications)
  • Andrew Ofstehage (3 joint publications)
  • Ian Scoones (2 joint publications)

In terms of book publications, Wendy Wolford has contributed to the publication titled The Social Lives of Land, released by Cornell University Press eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction

    Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones;Ben White

  • The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

    Benjamin White;Saturnino Borras jr.;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones

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

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

  • Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Wendy Wolford;Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones

  • To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil

    Angus Lindsay Wright;Wendy Wolford

  • This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

    Wendy Wolford

  • Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism

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

  • 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

  • The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush

    Ian Scoones;Ruth Hall;Saturnino M. Borras;Ben White

  • This Land Is Ours Now: Spatial Imaginaries and the Struggle for Land in Brazil

    Wendy Wolford

  • Agrarian Moral Economies and Neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing Worldviews and the State in the Struggle for Land

    Wendy Wolford

  • Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction

    Wendy Wolford

  • Participatory democracy by default: land reform, social movements and the state in Brazil

    Wendy Wolford

  • Producing Community: The MST and Land Reform Settlements in Brazil

    Wendy Wolford

  • Rights for resilience: food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice.

    Marygold Walsh-Dilley;Wendy Wolford;James McCarthy

  • Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many‐Splendored Thing

    Wendy Wolford

  • Families, Fields, And Fighting For Land: The Spatial Dynamics Of Contention In Rural Brazil

    Wendy Wolford

  • After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala

    Wendy Wolford

  • The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory

    Wendy Wolford

  • The Changing Role of the State in Latin American Land Reforms

    Alain de Janvry;Elisabeth Sadoulet;Wendy Wolford

  • Constructing parallels: Brazilian expertise and the commodification of land, labour and money in Mozambique

    Wendy Wolford;Ryan Nehring

  • (Un)Defining resilience: subjective understandings of ‘resilience’ from the field

    Marygold Walsh-Dilley;Wendy Wolford

  • The Difference Ethnography Can Make: Understanding Social Mobilization and Development in the Brazilian Northeast

    Wendy Wolford

Frequent Co-Authors

Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Marc Edelman
Marc Edelman City University of New York
Jesse C. Ribot
Jesse C. Ribot American University
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso University of California, Berkeley
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
Alain de Janvry
Alain de Janvry University of California, Berkeley

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