Marc Edelman

Faculty Fellow

Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has worked for many years on agrarian social movements in rural Latin America. More recently he has been looking comparatively at peasant movements across the globe. Professor Edelman’s books, which have been translated into several languages, include The Logic of the Latifundio and Peasants Against Globalization. He is also co-author of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery and co-editor of The Anthropology of Development and Globalization and Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he is currently doing research on the campaign of transnational agrarian movements to have the United Nations approve a declaration, and eventually a convention, on the rights of peasants.

Participating Years

2020–2021

The Agrarian Question Today

In the context of what appears to be inexorable urbanization, it is just as clear that agrarian questions are deeply enmeshed in the political, social, economic, and cultural challenges of contemporary existence. How have newer regimes of capital, particularly those associated with agri-business and food conglomerates, both formed and fractured agricultural communities?