Raj Patel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raj Patel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raj |
| FAMILY NAME | Patel |
| SIGNATURE | PATEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UC Berkeley, USA/University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3093-8502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 715 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: How to eat and how to think
Andhra Pradesh community managed natural farming – a conversation
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things , Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism…
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
A history of the world in seven cheap things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism,…
Cook, eat, man, woman: Understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, nutritionism and its alternatives from Malawi
The Group of Eight Countries (G8) launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to improve nutritional outcomes through private sector involvement in agricultural development. The accession of Malawi to the Alliance reveals the assumptions behind the intervention. We show that while the New Alliance may seem to have little to do with nutrition, its emergence as a frame for the privatization of food and agriculture has been decades in …
The Long Green Revolution
To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid agencies have called for a 'New Green Revolution'. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the Green Revolution. Using Arrighi's analysis of capital accumulation cycles, it is possible to trace a Long Green Revolution that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such an analysis illuminates commonalities in past and present Green Revolutions, including their ba…
The new harvest: Agricultural innovation in Africa
The new harvest: agricultural innovation in Africa, by Calestous Juma, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xxvi + 268, US$19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-199-78319-9 Based on Freedom to innovate
Food sovereignty
What does food sovereignty look like? Raj Patel Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it's unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying the right to have rights about food systems into prac…
A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo
Shackdweller communities are among the most impoverished and exploited on the planet. With nearly 1 billion people living in them, one might consider them to be hotbeds of radicalism. Yet, in fact, very few settlements have become disobedient. Using the work of S'bu Zikode of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement (South Africa) and the work of Alain Badiou, I show how politics is lived in Durban's shacks, and show how Badiou's thoughts…
Can Anyone Hear Us: Voices of the Poor
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Can Anyone Hear Us?Voices of the PoorAuthors/Editors: Deepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-SchulteDeepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-Schultehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-1601-6SectionsAboutPDF (2.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This book is the first in a three-part series, ab…
The Eating Attitudes and Behaviours of Asian and British Schoolgirls: A Pilot Study
This study set out to examine dietary, weight and eating attitudes of 12-18 year old British and Asian girls. Ninety-six subjects from a state school completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the Binge Eating Questionnnaire (BEQ) and a questionnaire concerning the perceived level of integration into British society. The mean EAT-26 score was higher than any other study has found using a school population. No significant correlation was found …
Food sovereignty
What does food sovereignty look like? Raj Patel Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it's unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying the right to have rights about food systems into prac…
The Long Green Revolution
To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid agencies have called for a 'New Green Revolution'. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the Green Revolution. Using Arrighi's analysis of capital accumulation cycles, it is possible to trace a Long Green Revolution that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such an analysis illuminates commonalities in past and present Green Revolutions, including their ba…
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things , Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism…
Cook, eat, man, woman: Understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, nutritionism and its alternatives from Malawi
The Group of Eight Countries (G8) launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to improve nutritional outcomes through private sector involvement in agricultural development. The accession of Malawi to the Alliance reveals the assumptions behind the intervention. We show that while the New Alliance may seem to have little to do with nutrition, its emergence as a frame for the privatization of food and agriculture has been decades in …
A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo
Shackdweller communities are among the most impoverished and exploited on the planet. With nearly 1 billion people living in them, one might consider them to be hotbeds of radicalism. Yet, in fact, very few settlements have become disobedient. Using the work of S'bu Zikode of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement (South Africa) and the work of Alain Badiou, I show how politics is lived in Durban's shacks, and show how Badiou's thoughts…
The new harvest: Agricultural innovation in Africa
The new harvest: agricultural innovation in Africa, by Calestous Juma, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xxvi + 268, US$19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-199-78319-9 Based on Freedom to innovate
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
The Eating Attitudes and Behaviours of Asian and British Schoolgirls: A Pilot Study
This study set out to examine dietary, weight and eating attitudes of 12-18 year old British and Asian girls. Ninety-six subjects from a state school completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the Binge Eating Questionnnaire (BEQ) and a questionnaire concerning the perceived level of integration into British society. The mean EAT-26 score was higher than any other study has found using a school population. No significant correlation was found …
Can Anyone Hear Us: Voices of the Poor
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Can Anyone Hear Us?Voices of the PoorAuthors/Editors: Deepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-SchulteDeepa naraya, Raj Patel, Kai Schafft, Anne Rademacher, and Sarah Koch-Schultehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-1601-6SectionsAboutPDF (2.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This book is the first in a three-part series, ab…
A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo
Shackdweller communities are among the most impoverished and exploited on the planet. With nearly 1 billion people living in them, one might consider them to be hotbeds of radicalism. Yet, in fact, very few settlements have become disobedient. Using the work of S'bu Zikode of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement (South Africa) and the work of Alain Badiou, I show how politics is lived in Durban's shacks, and show how Badiou's thoughts…
Food sovereignty
What does food sovereignty look like? Raj Patel Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it's unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying the right to have rights about food systems into prac…
The new harvest: Agricultural innovation in Africa
The new harvest: agricultural innovation in Africa, by Calestous Juma, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xxvi + 268, US$19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-199-78319-9 Based on Freedom to innovate
The Long Green Revolution
To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid agencies have called for a 'New Green Revolution'. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the Green Revolution. Using Arrighi's analysis of capital accumulation cycles, it is possible to trace a Long Green Revolution that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such an analysis illuminates commonalities in past and present Green Revolutions, including their ba…
Cook, eat, man, woman: Understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, nutritionism and its alternatives from Malawi
The Group of Eight Countries (G8) launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to improve nutritional outcomes through private sector involvement in agricultural development. The accession of Malawi to the Alliance reveals the assumptions behind the intervention. We show that while the New Alliance may seem to have little to do with nutrition, its emergence as a frame for the privatization of food and agriculture has been decades in …
A history of the world in seven cheap things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism,…
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things , Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism…
The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle: On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. I…
Andhra Pradesh community managed natural farming – a conversation
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: How to eat and how to think
Political science (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)