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The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2021). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.

Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2021). Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India. Anveshi broadsheet on contemporary politics, 13-15

Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India (2021)
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Lerche, J. Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India

The combination of caste & farmer identity amongst the Jats in western UP uniquely strengthens the resistance to the farm laws, but also creates barriers to creating lasting solidarities with marginalised groups that the farm movement is trying to in... Read More about Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India.

Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2021). Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815

Piketty's propositions for arresting inequality are discussed through the lens of racism/casteism. We focus on the case of India's George Floyds—the persistence of caste and tribe oppression under economic growth in India—through the insights of our... Read More about Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.