Biography
Max Spoor is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, associated with the Political Ecology (PE) research group of ISS, which includes thematic areas of agrarian, food and environmental studies as well as social policy in international development.
His research is related to rural and environmental issues, such as land grabbing, access to water resources, poverty, and inequality, and social exclusion. This research is geographically focused on Asian transitional economies such as China, Vietnam and the countries in Central and Eastern Europe (in particular former Soviet Central Asia), while he continues to do research in Latin America and the Caribbean (in particular Cuba and Nicaragua).
See for further information about the Research Programme "Political Ecology" (PE)
International Institute of Social Studies
Visiting professor | Academic staff unit
- spoor@iss.nl
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Work
- Fangping Rao, Max Spoor, Xianlei Ma & Xiaoping Shi (2020) - Perceived land tenure security in rural Xinjiang, China: The role of official land documents and trust - China Economic Review, 60 - doi: 10.1016/j.chieco.2017.03.009 - [link]
- Jun Borras, R Hall, Max Spoor, H Veltmeyer & J Ye (2020) - Foreword - [link]
- Louis Thiemann & Max Spoor (2019) - Beyond the ‘Special Period’: Land reform, supermarkets and the prospects for peasant-driven food sovereignty in post-socialist Cuba (2008-2017) - Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 40 (4), 546-563 - doi: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1632174 - [link]
- Max Spoor (2019) - 25 years of rural development in post-Soviet Central Asia: Sustaining inequalities - Eastern European Countryside, 24, 63-79 - doi: 10.2478/eec-2018-0004 - [link]
- Oane Visser & Max Spoor (2019) - Land grabbing and rural governance in the former Soviet Union - doi: 10.4324/9781315102375 - [link]
- Oane Visser, S Dorondel, P Jehlicka & Max Spoor (2019) - Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives - Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 40 (4), 499-510 - doi: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1688649 - [link]
- C (Carol) Hunsberger, E Corbera, Jun Borras, J C Franco, K Woods, C Work, R De la Rosa, V Eang, R Herre, SS Kham, Clara Park, S Sokheng, Max Spoor, T Shwe, K Thu Aung, Ratha Thuon & C Vaddhanaphuti (2017) - Climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict: towards a landscape-based and collaborative action research agenda - Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 38 (3), 305-324 - doi: 10.1080/02255189.2016.1250617 - [link]
- Adam M. Komarek, Max Spoor, Feng Shuyi & Shi Xiaoping (2017) - Income Implications of Political Capital and Agricultural Land Use in Western China - China Agricultural Economic Review, 9 (1), 93-110 - doi: 10.1108/CAER-03-2015-030 - [link]
- Jun Borras, Max Spoor & H Veltmeyer (2017) - Foreword
- Oane Visser, Max Spoor & N Mamonova (2017) - Is Russia the new global ‘breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, agroholdings and grain production - [link]
- Oane Visser, N Mamonova, Max Spoor & A Nikulin (2015) - Quiet food sovereignty. On the hidden sustainability, productivity and sociality of smallholders in Russia (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2011) - Rural Inequality in Eastern Europe and the CIS (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2011) - The Future of the Aral Sea (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2011) - Presentation in relation to the launch of the Regional Human Development Report 2011 "Beyond Transition: Towards Inclusive Societies".. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2011) - La economia politica de la pobreza rural: sostenibilidad y desarrollo (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2011) - Los Retos de Desarrollo en una Economia Globalizada (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Max Spoor (2002) - Unknown event (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic
