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Henry Bernstein

Henry Bernstein is Professor of Development Studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has taught in several other universities in Britain as well as in Turkey and Tanzania, and has had visiting research appointments in France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Canada and the USA. He was co-editor, with T. J. Byres, of the Journal of Peasant Studies for fifteen years and in 2001 founded, again with Byres, the Journal of Agrarian Change of which he is now editor emeritus. He has longstanding interests in the political economy of agrarian change, in development studies, and in social theory more generally. Recent publications include ‘Land conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: political economy and moral economy’ in Afriche e Orienti (2006); ‘Once were/still are peasants?’ in New Political Economy (2006); ‘Is there an agrarian question in the twenty-first century?’ in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2006); ‘Structural adjustment and African agriculture: a retrospect’ in The World Bank: Constructing Hegemony or Alleviating Poverty? edited by David Moore, (2007); ‘The antinomies of Development Studies’ in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (2007); and (with Philip Woodhouse) ‘Africa: Eco-populist utopias and (micro-)capitalist realities’ in The Socialist Register 2007.

 

 

 

 

This Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.