Oane Visser
Biographic Data
| ID | 135491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oane Visser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oane |
| FAMILY NAME | Visser |
| SIGNATURE | VISSER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating receding waters
The Caspian Sea is undergoing profound socio-environmental transformations, including declining water levels, rising temperatures, and biodiversity loss. With the sea turning into land at a rate of several meters per year, the retreating shoreline offers a visible sign of shrinking space for fishers and of the long-standing fluidity of land–water boundaries in the Caspian. This article explores how small-scale fishers along the Azerbaijani Caspia…
Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa
Platforms' high subscription rates hide limited, uneven, and short-lived smallholders' use. • Limited use reflects design flaws and socio-technical misfits, not farmers' deficits. • Top-down platform models reinforce power asymmetries and limit farmers' autonomy. • Peer networks, extension services, and low-tech tools often outperform platforms. • Human mediation is crucial for the overall functioning of digital Ag technologies
Artisanal fishers and COP29
The 2024 COP29 climate summit in Baku drew international attention to the Caspian Sea's ecological crisis, where delegates could observe oil rigs dotting rapidly receding waters. This article explores how artisanal fishers along Azerbaijan's Caspian shore navigate environmental degradation and marginalizing domestic policies while being excluded from climate diplomacy. Drawing on fieldwork and COP29 analysis, this article examines contradictions …
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning
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Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Voicing past and present uncertainties
This article analyzes the politics of memory around the Estonian government's decision to relocate Tallinn's World War II memorial of a Soviet soldier. It shows why and how legitimizing national discourses resonated with and influenced personal narratives among ordinary Estonians. It also discusses discourses of Estonians who took a more critical stance on the relocation. The article argues that the dominant discourse in Estonia has been characte…
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Changing Properties of Property
Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian Farm Enterprises 'Coping with the Market
The continued existence and predominance of large farm enterprises (LFEs) in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy is analysed using theories of transaction costs, coordination mechanisms and networks. A comparative analysis is presented of farm restructuring in two, highly contrasting survey regions. That analysis shows that LFEs have undertaken only partial restructuring, which has not lead to radical increases in output…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian Farm Enterprises 'Coping with the Market
The continued existence and predominance of large farm enterprises (LFEs) in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy is analysed using theories of transaction costs, coordination mechanisms and networks. A comparative analysis is presented of farm restructuring in two, highly contrasting survey regions. That analysis shows that LFEs have undertaken only partial restructuring, which has not lead to radical increases in output…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian Farm Enterprises 'Coping with the Market
The continued existence and predominance of large farm enterprises (LFEs) in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy is analysed using theories of transaction costs, coordination mechanisms and networks. A comparative analysis is presented of farm restructuring in two, highly contrasting survey regions. That analysis shows that LFEs have undertaken only partial restructuring, which has not lead to radical increases in output…
Changing Properties of Property
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Voicing past and present uncertainties
This article analyzes the politics of memory around the Estonian government's decision to relocate Tallinn's World War II memorial of a Soviet soldier. It shows why and how legitimizing national discourses resonated with and influenced personal narratives among ordinary Estonians. It also discusses discourses of Estonians who took a more critical stance on the relocation. The article argues that the dominant discourse in Estonia has been characte…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect
Artisanal fishers and COP29
The 2024 COP29 climate summit in Baku drew international attention to the Caspian Sea's ecological crisis, where delegates could observe oil rigs dotting rapidly receding waters. This article explores how artisanal fishers along Azerbaijan's Caspian shore navigate environmental degradation and marginalizing domestic policies while being excluded from climate diplomacy. Drawing on fieldwork and COP29 analysis, this article examines contradictions …
Navigating receding waters
The Caspian Sea is undergoing profound socio-environmental transformations, including declining water levels, rising temperatures, and biodiversity loss. With the sea turning into land at a rate of several meters per year, the retreating shoreline offers a visible sign of shrinking space for fishers and of the long-standing fluidity of land–water boundaries in the Caspian. This article explores how small-scale fishers along the Azerbaijani Caspia…
Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa
Platforms' high subscription rates hide limited, uneven, and short-lived smallholders' use. • Limited use reflects design flaws and socio-technical misfits, not farmers' deficits. • Top-down platform models reinforce power asymmetries and limit farmers' autonomy. • Peer networks, extension services, and low-tech tools often outperform platforms. • Human mediation is crucial for the overall functioning of digital Ag technologies
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economic system (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Market economy (4 works)