Yves Van Leynseele
Biographic Data
| ID | 134340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yves Van Leynseele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yves |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Leynseele |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LEYNSEELE Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5900-555X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking Pedagogical Design in International Development Studies to Foster Epistemic Justice
Acknowledging the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza—and the ensuing student encampments in solidarity as a critical rupture—this article reflects on how lecturers, students and alumni within an International Development Studies (IDS) programme at a Western, internationalized university grapple with epistemic injustice, decolonial praxis and institutional complicity. Using a collaborative auto-ethnographic approach and insights from a co-created …
Unpacking land-associated assemblages 'from below
Market-oriented agrarian transformation challenges notions of the ‘communal’ nature of customary land. This paper foregrounds the emergent patterns of land access in the context of an expanding tree-crop commodity frontier in the former ‘homeland’ of Venda, South Africa. We develop an actor-focused, assemblage approach and use it to identify how three entrepreneurial, accumulating tree-crop farmers engaging in commercial macadamia nut and avocado…
Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia
This article explores the relationship between the uneven outcomes of development in Indonesian cities with exclusionary outcomes of capitalist development in rural areas. Combining concepts of planetary urbanization with critical agrarian studies, we show how sociospatial and socionatural differentiations in (post-) New Order Java result in the emergence of the Kaum Miskin Kota, a 'stagnant relative surplus population' residing in precarious flo…
Rethinking the divide
The debate on smallholder commodification trajectories tends to be polarised between mainstream approaches that advocate tighter integration of smallholders into global value chains, and alternative approaches that favour localised markets on the grounds that these provide greater autonomy over production and marketing, and allow a greater share of value to be realised for producers and the wider community. This debate obscures the interrelations…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
Conceptualizing inclusiveness of smallholder value chain integration
The integration of male and female smallholders in high-end value chains (e.g. those for tree crops like cocoa, oil palm, avocado, and mango), has been promoted throughout the global South as a strategy for poverty alleviation, economic growth, employment generation, gender equality, and improved wellbeing. More critical literature, however, questions the inclusiveness of farmers’ value chain engagement. Despite rapid mainstreaming of inclusivene…
Peasant agency in Ghana's oil palm sector
This paper contributes to the debate on peasant differentiation and market integration in the food sovereignty literature by examining the smallholder-oriented oil palm sector in Ghana's eastern region. Against the background of loosening entry barriers in global value chains, and through an analysis of farmers' different positions in palm oil's multiple markets, we witness peasant-like patterning of production and strategic market participation …
Transforming land governance and strengthening the state in South Sudan
This article analyzes how transformations of land governance in the new Republic of South Sudan play into processes of everyday state formation. National land tenure reforms and decentralization policies have increased polarization between local public authorities in and around Yei Town, who vie for legitimacy amongst returning refugees, internally displaced people and migrants arriving in the wake of the civil war. Ambiguously worded national po…
White Belonging and Brokerage at a South African Rural Frontier
This paper discusses the case of a broker who played a key role in introducing a model of rural development to the Limpopo Province which is based on an adaptation of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme. His brokering is situated in the cultural politics of land, showing how enterprising whites may combine their roles as trustees in development projects with their, increasingly challenged, subject position as landowners. Demonstrating how this b…
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia
This article explores the relationship between the uneven outcomes of development in Indonesian cities with exclusionary outcomes of capitalist development in rural areas. Combining concepts of planetary urbanization with critical agrarian studies, we show how sociospatial and socionatural differentiations in (post-) New Order Java result in the emergence of the Kaum Miskin Kota, a 'stagnant relative surplus population' residing in precarious flo…
White Belonging and Brokerage at a South African Rural Frontier
This paper discusses the case of a broker who played a key role in introducing a model of rural development to the Limpopo Province which is based on an adaptation of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme. His brokering is situated in the cultural politics of land, showing how enterprising whites may combine their roles as trustees in development projects with their, increasingly challenged, subject position as landowners. Demonstrating how this b…
Rethinking the divide
The debate on smallholder commodification trajectories tends to be polarised between mainstream approaches that advocate tighter integration of smallholders into global value chains, and alternative approaches that favour localised markets on the grounds that these provide greater autonomy over production and marketing, and allow a greater share of value to be realised for producers and the wider community. This debate obscures the interrelations…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
Peasant agency in Ghana's oil palm sector
This paper contributes to the debate on peasant differentiation and market integration in the food sovereignty literature by examining the smallholder-oriented oil palm sector in Ghana's eastern region. Against the background of loosening entry barriers in global value chains, and through an analysis of farmers' different positions in palm oil's multiple markets, we witness peasant-like patterning of production and strategic market participation …
Transforming land governance and strengthening the state in South Sudan
This article analyzes how transformations of land governance in the new Republic of South Sudan play into processes of everyday state formation. National land tenure reforms and decentralization policies have increased polarization between local public authorities in and around Yei Town, who vie for legitimacy amongst returning refugees, internally displaced people and migrants arriving in the wake of the civil war. Ambiguously worded national po…
Unpacking land-associated assemblages 'from below
Market-oriented agrarian transformation challenges notions of the ‘communal’ nature of customary land. This paper foregrounds the emergent patterns of land access in the context of an expanding tree-crop commodity frontier in the former ‘homeland’ of Venda, South Africa. We develop an actor-focused, assemblage approach and use it to identify how three entrepreneurial, accumulating tree-crop farmers engaging in commercial macadamia nut and avocado…
Conceptualizing inclusiveness of smallholder value chain integration
The integration of male and female smallholders in high-end value chains (e.g. those for tree crops like cocoa, oil palm, avocado, and mango), has been promoted throughout the global South as a strategy for poverty alleviation, economic growth, employment generation, gender equality, and improved wellbeing. More critical literature, however, questions the inclusiveness of farmers’ value chain engagement. Despite rapid mainstreaming of inclusivene…
Transforming land governance and strengthening the state in South Sudan
This article analyzes how transformations of land governance in the new Republic of South Sudan play into processes of everyday state formation. National land tenure reforms and decentralization policies have increased polarization between local public authorities in and around Yei Town, who vie for legitimacy amongst returning refugees, internally displaced people and migrants arriving in the wake of the civil war. Ambiguously worded national po…
White Belonging and Brokerage at a South African Rural Frontier
This paper discusses the case of a broker who played a key role in introducing a model of rural development to the Limpopo Province which is based on an adaptation of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme. His brokering is situated in the cultural politics of land, showing how enterprising whites may combine their roles as trustees in development projects with their, increasingly challenged, subject position as landowners. Demonstrating how this b…
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Conceptualizing inclusiveness of smallholder value chain integration
The integration of male and female smallholders in high-end value chains (e.g. those for tree crops like cocoa, oil palm, avocado, and mango), has been promoted throughout the global South as a strategy for poverty alleviation, economic growth, employment generation, gender equality, and improved wellbeing. More critical literature, however, questions the inclusiveness of farmers’ value chain engagement. Despite rapid mainstreaming of inclusivene…
Peasant agency in Ghana's oil palm sector
This paper contributes to the debate on peasant differentiation and market integration in the food sovereignty literature by examining the smallholder-oriented oil palm sector in Ghana's eastern region. Against the background of loosening entry barriers in global value chains, and through an analysis of farmers' different positions in palm oil's multiple markets, we witness peasant-like patterning of production and strategic market participation …
Rethinking the divide
The debate on smallholder commodification trajectories tends to be polarised between mainstream approaches that advocate tighter integration of smallholders into global value chains, and alternative approaches that favour localised markets on the grounds that these provide greater autonomy over production and marketing, and allow a greater share of value to be realised for producers and the wider community. This debate obscures the interrelations…
Covid-19, poverty and inclusive development
The COVID-19 epidemic provides yet another reason to prioritize inclusive development. Current response strategies of the global community and countries expose a low level of solidarity with poorer nations and poorer people in all nations. Against this background, this paper addresses the question: What are the development challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic lays bare and what lessons can be learnt for the way recovery processes are designed? U…
Unpacking land-associated assemblages 'from below
Market-oriented agrarian transformation challenges notions of the ‘communal’ nature of customary land. This paper foregrounds the emergent patterns of land access in the context of an expanding tree-crop commodity frontier in the former ‘homeland’ of Venda, South Africa. We develop an actor-focused, assemblage approach and use it to identify how three entrepreneurial, accumulating tree-crop farmers engaging in commercial macadamia nut and avocado…
Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia
This article explores the relationship between the uneven outcomes of development in Indonesian cities with exclusionary outcomes of capitalist development in rural areas. Combining concepts of planetary urbanization with critical agrarian studies, we show how sociospatial and socionatural differentiations in (post-) New Order Java result in the emergence of the Kaum Miskin Kota, a 'stagnant relative surplus population' residing in precarious flo…
Rethinking Pedagogical Design in International Development Studies to Foster Epistemic Justice
Acknowledging the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza—and the ensuing student encampments in solidarity as a critical rupture—this article reflects on how lecturers, students and alumni within an International Development Studies (IDS) programme at a Western, internationalized university grapple with epistemic injustice, decolonial praxis and institutional complicity. Using a collaborative auto-ethnographic approach and insights from a co-created …
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works)