This article introduces a special issue that is dedicated to a critical inquiry of the
deagrarianisation and depeasantisation theses. It sets the scene for the contributions that …

South Africa continues to experience high rates of rural–urban migration. Despite long-term
residence in urban areas, many migrants do not consider the city to be home. This article …

Smallholder production is a significant contributor to rural livelihoods and rural economies in
much of the developing world. Yet, there is evidence of increasing disengagement in some …

Our article concerns the decline in arable production in the former homelands of South
Africa–part of a longer-term trend that has probably accelerated since the mid 1990s. Our …

The semi-proletarian thesis, formulated by Marxist scholars in the 1970s, posits that semi-
proletarian conditions, in which rural households earn income from both farming and labor …

This contribution critically engages with the academic debate on de-agrarianisation which
has gained common ground in political economy perspectives of agrarian change in South …

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning
the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South. On …

Deagrarianisation amongst smallholder farmers is a growing phenomenon globally, driven
by a complex array of context-specific and higher-scale factors. Most research has focused …

This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives
in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state …

Land users' motives for participating in conservation and restoration activities are influenced
by the local and broader scale contexts and are often determined by their perceptions of the …