Fraser Sugden
Biographic Data
| ID | 129760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fraser Sugden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fraser |
| FAMILY NAME | Sugden |
| SIGNATURE | SUGDEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7559-4486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Long-term trajectories of return migration: Agrarian differentiation and class mobility in Nepal, Moldova, and Thailand’
While there is considerable research on return migration, it is disproportionately focused on the immediate moment of return, including decision making. There is an emerging interest, however, in the outcomes for returnees—a policy relevant question at a time when there is growing emphasis on harnessing migration to support rural development. However, limited research has explored the social structures which mediate return migration outcomes, par…
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal
Young people are increasingly turning away from agriculture in many parts of the global South, even where agriculture remains the backbone of livelihoods and the rural economy. This tendency among rural youth has become a critical research and public concern given that mass youth un (der)employment has emerged as a defining feature in many countries. In this paper, we interrogate and depart from the dominant narrative of the youth-agriculture dis…
Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: Learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal
This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the trajectory of change within agriculture. The dual dependence on both migrant income and agriculture with…
Towards a collaborative governance regime for disaster risk reduction: Exploring scalar narratives of institutional change in Nepal
Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal: Process, benefits, and challenges
Do farmers' collectives, which pool land, labour, capital, and skills to create medium‐sized production units, offer a more viable model of farming for resource‐constrained smallholders than individual family farms? A participatory action research project in Eastern India and Nepal provides notable answers. Groups of marginal and tenant farmers, catalysed by the project, evolved into four different collective models with varying levels of coopera…
Unheard vulnerability discourses from Tarai-Madhesh, Nepal
Ambivalences of collective farming: Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
New models of collective farming have been suggested as potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transform peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we ask: to what extent can collective farming open up possibilities of empowerment for m…
Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
This paper engages with the long‐running debate on the transition from farm‐based livelihoods to capitalism in the context of labour migration. Tracing the historic evolution of modes of production in the peripheral Mithilanchal region of the Eastern Gangetic Plains, it notes how the economic processes which are today driving the peasantry into the labour force through migration are not directly connected to the process of capitalist accumulation…
Mapping historical and contemporary agrarian transformations and capitalist infiltration in a complex upland environment: A case from eastern Nepal
The relationship that mountain communities have with global capitalism are complex, being mediated by a diverse topography and ecology, both of which provide opportunities for capital accumulation, while also isolating older, "pre-capitalist" modes of production. This paper takes a case study valley from Nepal's eastern hills, tracing over two centuries of agrarian change and evolving interactions between "adivasi" and "semi-feudal" economic form…
A mode of production flux: The transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar
Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation
Capitalist Expansion and the Decline of Common Property Ecosystems in China, Vietnam and India
This article identifies some of the multiple processes of capitalist development through which access to common property resources and their utility for communities are undermined. Three sites in upland Asia demonstrate how patterns of exclusion are mediated by the unique and selective trajectories through which capital expands, resulting in a decline of common property ecosystems. The process is mediated by economic stress, ecological degradatio…
Pre-capitalist Reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: Semi-feudal Agriculture in an Era of Globalisation
This article highlights the continued significance of pre-capitalist formations in shaping the trajectory of economic transition in peripheral regions, even in an era of neo-liberal globalisation. There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. Using a case study from Nepal's far eastern Tarai, this paper seeks to understand the reproduction of feudal social relations in …
Neo-liberalism, markets and class structures on the Nepali lowlands: The political economy of agrarian change
Pre-capitalist Reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: Semi-feudal Agriculture in an Era of Globalisation
This article highlights the continued significance of pre-capitalist formations in shaping the trajectory of economic transition in peripheral regions, even in an era of neo-liberal globalisation. There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. Using a case study from Nepal's far eastern Tarai, this paper seeks to understand the reproduction of feudal social relations in …
Neo-liberalism, markets and class structures on the Nepali lowlands: The political economy of agrarian change
Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation
Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: Learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal
This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the trajectory of change within agriculture. The dual dependence on both migrant income and agriculture with…
Mapping historical and contemporary agrarian transformations and capitalist infiltration in a complex upland environment: A case from eastern Nepal
The relationship that mountain communities have with global capitalism are complex, being mediated by a diverse topography and ecology, both of which provide opportunities for capital accumulation, while also isolating older, "pre-capitalist" modes of production. This paper takes a case study valley from Nepal's eastern hills, tracing over two centuries of agrarian change and evolving interactions between "adivasi" and "semi-feudal" economic form…
Ambivalences of collective farming: Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
New models of collective farming have been suggested as potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transform peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we ask: to what extent can collective farming open up possibilities of empowerment for m…
Unheard vulnerability discourses from Tarai-Madhesh, Nepal
Capitalist Expansion and the Decline of Common Property Ecosystems in China, Vietnam and India
This article identifies some of the multiple processes of capitalist development through which access to common property resources and their utility for communities are undermined. Three sites in upland Asia demonstrate how patterns of exclusion are mediated by the unique and selective trajectories through which capital expands, resulting in a decline of common property ecosystems. The process is mediated by economic stress, ecological degradatio…
Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
This paper engages with the long‐running debate on the transition from farm‐based livelihoods to capitalism in the context of labour migration. Tracing the historic evolution of modes of production in the peripheral Mithilanchal region of the Eastern Gangetic Plains, it notes how the economic processes which are today driving the peasantry into the labour force through migration are not directly connected to the process of capitalist accumulation…
A mode of production flux: The transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal
Young people are increasingly turning away from agriculture in many parts of the global South, even where agriculture remains the backbone of livelihoods and the rural economy. This tendency among rural youth has become a critical research and public concern given that mass youth un (der)employment has emerged as a defining feature in many countries. In this paper, we interrogate and depart from the dominant narrative of the youth-agriculture dis…
Neo-liberalism, markets and class structures on the Nepali lowlands: The political economy of agrarian change
Pre-capitalist Reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: Semi-feudal Agriculture in an Era of Globalisation
This article highlights the continued significance of pre-capitalist formations in shaping the trajectory of economic transition in peripheral regions, even in an era of neo-liberal globalisation. There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. Using a case study from Nepal's far eastern Tarai, this paper seeks to understand the reproduction of feudal social relations in …
Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation
Capitalist Expansion and the Decline of Common Property Ecosystems in China, Vietnam and India
This article identifies some of the multiple processes of capitalist development through which access to common property resources and their utility for communities are undermined. Three sites in upland Asia demonstrate how patterns of exclusion are mediated by the unique and selective trajectories through which capital expands, resulting in a decline of common property ecosystems. The process is mediated by economic stress, ecological degradatio…
A mode of production flux: The transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar
Mapping historical and contemporary agrarian transformations and capitalist infiltration in a complex upland environment: A case from eastern Nepal
The relationship that mountain communities have with global capitalism are complex, being mediated by a diverse topography and ecology, both of which provide opportunities for capital accumulation, while also isolating older, "pre-capitalist" modes of production. This paper takes a case study valley from Nepal's eastern hills, tracing over two centuries of agrarian change and evolving interactions between "adivasi" and "semi-feudal" economic form…
Ambivalences of collective farming: Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
New models of collective farming have been suggested as potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transform peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we ask: to what extent can collective farming open up possibilities of empowerment for m…
Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
This paper engages with the long‐running debate on the transition from farm‐based livelihoods to capitalism in the context of labour migration. Tracing the historic evolution of modes of production in the peripheral Mithilanchal region of the Eastern Gangetic Plains, it notes how the economic processes which are today driving the peasantry into the labour force through migration are not directly connected to the process of capitalist accumulation…
Towards a collaborative governance regime for disaster risk reduction: Exploring scalar narratives of institutional change in Nepal
Experiments in farmers' collectives in Eastern India and Nepal: Process, benefits, and challenges
Do farmers' collectives, which pool land, labour, capital, and skills to create medium‐sized production units, offer a more viable model of farming for resource‐constrained smallholders than individual family farms? A participatory action research project in Eastern India and Nepal provides notable answers. Groups of marginal and tenant farmers, catalysed by the project, evolved into four different collective models with varying levels of coopera…
Unheard vulnerability discourses from Tarai-Madhesh, Nepal
Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: Learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal
This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the trajectory of change within agriculture. The dual dependence on both migrant income and agriculture with…
Long-term trajectories of return migration: Agrarian differentiation and class mobility in Nepal, Moldova, and Thailand’
While there is considerable research on return migration, it is disproportionately focused on the immediate moment of return, including decision making. There is an emerging interest, however, in the outcomes for returnees—a policy relevant question at a time when there is growing emphasis on harnessing migration to support rural development. However, limited research has explored the social structures which mediate return migration outcomes, par…
Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal
Young people are increasingly turning away from agriculture in many parts of the global South, even where agriculture remains the backbone of livelihoods and the rural economy. This tendency among rural youth has become a critical research and public concern given that mass youth un (der)employment has emerged as a defining feature in many countries. In this paper, we interrogate and depart from the dominant narrative of the youth-agriculture dis…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Capitalism (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agrarian society (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Context (archaeology (6 works)