Michael Levien

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Levien is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Levien has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Michael Levien's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (17 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (9 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (6 papers). Michael Levien is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (17 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (9 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (6 papers). Michael Levien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and India. Michael Levien's co-authors include Hairong Yan, Michael Watts, Marcel Paret, Amita Baviskar, Sunila S. Kale, Qian Forrest Zhang, Joel Andreas, Madeleine Fairbairn, S. Ryan Isakson and K. Sivaramakrishnan and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Sociology, World Development and Thrombosis Research.

In The Last Decade

Michael Levien

28 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The land question: special economic zones and the politic... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India
    2012 253 citations Michael Levien The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Levien United States 17 726 690 540 249 215 31 1.4k
Henry Veltmeyer Canada 22 412 0.6× 735 1.1× 481 0.9× 50 0.2× 78 0.4× 134 1.5k
Saturnino M. Borras Netherlands 26 1.9k 2.7× 720 1.0× 338 0.6× 778 3.1× 102 0.5× 33 2.6k
A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi Canada 19 846 1.2× 523 0.8× 228 0.4× 285 1.1× 35 0.2× 61 1.4k
Dzodzi Tsikata Ghana 19 712 1.0× 420 0.6× 147 0.3× 636 2.6× 171 0.8× 47 1.4k
Jim Glassman Canada 21 170 0.2× 854 1.2× 782 1.4× 36 0.1× 207 1.0× 53 1.6k
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet Australia 21 259 0.4× 949 1.4× 684 1.3× 148 0.6× 69 0.3× 46 1.5k
Georgina M. Gómez Netherlands 10 535 0.7× 248 0.4× 109 0.2× 195 0.8× 54 0.3× 40 976
Admos Chimhowu United States 13 272 0.4× 374 0.5× 97 0.2× 362 1.5× 186 0.9× 24 923
Douglas Rimmer United Kingdom 13 169 0.2× 634 0.9× 387 0.7× 123 0.5× 76 0.4× 56 1.6k
Bernardo Mueller Brazil 20 265 0.4× 331 0.5× 399 0.7× 298 1.2× 60 0.3× 72 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Levien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Levien

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baviskar, Amita & Michael Levien. (2021). Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 48(7). 1341–1355. 27 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael, et al.. (2021). Toward a Political Sociology of Dispossession: Explaining Opposition to Capital Projects in India. Politics & Society. 50(2). 279–310. 4 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2021). Coercive Rentier Networks. 7(2). 159–185. 15 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2020). Rule by bosses? Criminal political economies in South Asia. Journal of Agrarian Change. 20(3). 504–511. 2 indexed citations
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Andreas, Joel, Sunila S. Kale, Michael Levien, & Qian Forrest Zhang. (2020). Rural land dispossession in China and India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 47(6). 1109–1142. 40 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2019). Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India. South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies. 42(1). 208–211. 2 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2018). Dispossession without Development. Oxford University Press eBooks. 154 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2018). Politics after Dispossession. Oxford University Press eBooks.
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Levien, Michael. (2018). Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. 35 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2018). Reconstructing Polanyi?. Development and Change. 49(4). 1115–1126. 5 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael, Michael Watts, & Hairong Yan. (2018). Agrarian Marxism. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45(5-6). 853–883. 69 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2017). From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2017). Gender and land dispossession: a comparative analysis. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 44(6). 1111–1134. 59 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2015). From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession: Six Theses on India's Land Question. 28 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2013). The agrarian question in the neoliberal era: primitive accumulation and the peasantry. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 40(1). 307–311. 1 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2013). Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones. Development and Change. 44(2). 381–407. 145 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2011). Special Economic Zones and Accumulation by Dispossession in India. Journal of Agrarian Change. 11(4). 454–483. 167 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2011). Rationalising Dispossession: The Land Acquisition and Resettlement Bills. 16 indexed citations
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Levien, Michael. (2007). India's Double-Movement : Polanyi and the National Alliance of People's Movements. 51(51). 119–149. 18 indexed citations

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