China Daily, May 10, 2021.
Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University.
Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development that features the economic globalization and financialization of monopoly capitalism. The characteristics of neoimperialism can be summed up on the basis of the following five key features. First is the new monopoly of production and circulation. The internationalization of production and circulation, together with the intensified concentration of capital, gives rise to giant multinational monopoly corporations whose wealth is nearly as great as that of whole countries. Second is the new monopol
Large-scale land transactions in which nations sell huge, publicly owned parcels to foreign and domestic corporations negatively affect local women more than men, a new study by Oregon State University shows.
Alexander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. His work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America and Europe. He has published two books: Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in an American Context (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and, the co-authored, The Violent Technologies of Extraction (Palgrave, 2020). This also includes articles in Anarchist Studies, Geopolitics, Journal of Peasant Studies, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Political Geography, Journal of Political Ecology, Environment and Planning E, Globalizations and many others.
Published on 2 February 2021
IDS has renewed its institutional partnership agreement with the International Institute of Social Studies in a move that highlights our shared values and ongoing commitment to ensuring the representation of social sciences in responses to global shocks.
Reaffirming a long-standing partnership
As academics and knowledge professionals committed to a more equal and sustainable world, staff at IDS and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) share the goal of collaborating across sciences, sectors and communities to do research, learning and teaching that brings progressive change.
The agreement builds on decades of collaboration and extends our 2017-2020 agreement until December 2024. Recent collaborations have been through the Journal of Peasant Studies (which IDS’ Ian Scoones guest edits), the Land Deals Politics Initiative, the Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and Community Innovation Training Network (WEGO-