Marc Edelman

Marc Edelman (born 1952, New York, N.Y.) is president of the American Ethnological Society and professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

He has also taught or been a visiting researcher at the University of Costa Rica, Tashkent State University (Uzbekistan), Yale University, Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (Ecuador).

Edelman received his B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978) and his Ph.D. (1985) in Anthropology from Columbia University. His research has analyzed agrarian change in Latin America, transnational social movements, rural development problems, historical and contemporary land grabbing, the rise of authoritarian populism, and the human rights of rural populations.

Publications

Books

• 2018 Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’ [with co-editors Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Ben White, and Wendy Wolford]. London: Routledge.
• 2017 Activistas empedernidos e intelectuales comprometidos: Ensayos sobre movimientos sociales, derechos humanos y estudios latinoamericanos. Quito: Editorial del Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales.
• 2016Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements [with co-author Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.]. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood and Rugby, Warwickshire UK: Practical Action Publishing.
• 2016Estudios agrarios críticos: Tierras, semillas, soberanía alimentaria y los derechos de las y los campesinos. Quito: Editorial del Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales.
• 2016 Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty. Global agrarian transformations [with co-editors James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti, Tony Weis and Wendy Wolford]. London: Routledge.
• 2015Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method [with co-editors Carlos Oya and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.. Routledge
• 2008Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization [with co-editors Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. and Cristóbal Kay]. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2007Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects [with co-authors Richard Sandbrook, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• 2005The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism [with co-editor Angelique Haugerud]. London: Blackwell.
• 1999 Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 1998 Ciencia social en Costa Rica: Experiencias de vida e investigación [with co-authors Fabrice Lehoucq, Steven Palmer, and Iván Molina] San José: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional & Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica,
• 1992 The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica since the Late Nineteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 1989 The Costa Rica Reader [with co-editor Joanne Kenen]. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
• 1988Weder Schaf noch Wolf: Sowjetunion-Lateinamerika 1917-1987 [with co-author Klaus Fritsche] Bonn: Herausgeber und Vertrieb-Informationsstelle Lateinamerika.