Elisa Greco
Political Economy of Development, Africa, Marxist Theory, Land Questions, Labour Questions, Class Relations
2010 PhD African Studies and Development Politics, University of Naples Orientale (Italy). 2012 Teaching Fellow, Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds (UK). 2013–2016 Research Associate, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester (UK) and Makerere Institute for Social Research, University of Kampala (Uganda). 2016–2019 Research Associate, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds (UK). 2019–2022 Associate Professor in IPE and Development at the European School of Social and Political Sciences, Catholic University of Lille (France).
Greco, Elisa 2025: Rice in Africa: the emergence of a global commodity. Monograph. Routledge, Critical Food Studies series (expected December 2025)
Greco, Elisa 2025: Africa and permanent (global) wars, Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa and Wengraf, L., Bujra, J., Mfula, C., Bush, R. 2024: The climate emergency in Africa, Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2023: Keeping eyes on Sudan, keeping eyes on austerity (in press). Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2022: Engaging with the non-human turn: a response to Buscher. Dialogues in Human Geography 12(1): 90-94. (IF 27)
Greco, Elisa and Carlos Castel-Branco 2022: Neither miracle nor mirage: editorial of the special issue of the Review of African Political Economy, RoAPE 49 (171) (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2020: Africa, extractivism and the crisis this time. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 47 (166) (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2020: Global value relations and local labour regimes in rice farming in Uganda and Tanzania. Organisation (IF 3.3)
Greco, Elisa 2019: Not quite post-political. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 46 (160), pp.171-181 (IF 1.8).
Greco, Elisa and Ray Bush 2019: Egypt under military rule. Review of African Political Economy, vol.46 (162), pp. 529-534.
Greco, Elisa 2019: Value, rent and nature: the centrality of class. Dialogues in Human Geography (with E. Apostolopoulou) (IF 27)
Greco, Elisa 2025: Rice in Africa: the emergence of a global commodity. Monograph. Routledge, Critical Food Studies series (expected December 2025)
Greco, Elisa and Martiniello, G. and Wiegratz, J. (Hg.) 2018: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. London, Zed Books.
Greco, Elisa 2025: Africa and permanent (global) wars, Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa and Wengraf, L., Bujra, J., Mfula, C., Bush, R. 2024: The climate emergency in Africa, Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2023: Keeping eyes on Sudan, keeping eyes on austerity (in press). Review of African Political Economy (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2022: Engaging with the non-human turn: a response to Buscher. Dialogues in Human Geography 12(1): 90-94. (IF 27)
Greco, Elisa and Carlos Castel-Branco 2022: Neither miracle nor mirage: editorial of the special issue of the Review of African Political Economy, RoAPE 49 (171) (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2020: Africa, extractivism and the crisis this time. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 47 (166) (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2020: Global value relations and local labour regimes in rice farming in Uganda and Tanzania. Organisation (IF 3.3)
Greco, Elisa 2019: Not quite post-political. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 46 (160), pp.171-181 (IF 1.8).
Greco, Elisa and Ray Bush 2019: Egypt under military rule. Review of African Political Economy, vol.46 (162), pp. 529-534.
Greco, Elisa 2019: Value, rent and nature: the centrality of class. Dialogues in Human Geography (with E. Apostolopoulou) (IF 27)
Greco, Elisa 2018: Biodiversity offsetting and the construction of ‘equivalent natures’: a Marxist critique. Acme: International Journal for Critical Geographies (with W. Adam and E. Apostolopoulou)
Greco, Elisa 2017: Farmers or squatters? Collective land claims in sisal estates, Tanzania (1980s – 2000s), Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 17 (1), pp. 166–187. (IF 2.9)
Greco, Elisa 2016: Village land politics in Tanzania and the legacy of ujamaa. Special issue “Land, liberation and democracy – a colloquium in honour of Lionel Cliffe”. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 43, (s.1), pp. 22–40. (IF 1.8)
Greco, Elisa 2015: Landlords in the making: class dynamics and the agrarian question in Mbarali, Tanzania. Review of African Political Economy, vol. 42 (144), 2015, pp. 225-244. (IF 1.8)
Book chapters:
Greco, Elisa 2021: ‘If eight hours seem too few…’: the strengths and pitfalls of qualitative research in critical agrarian studies. Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies. Akram-Lodhi, A.H., Kristina Dietz,K., Engels, B. and McKay, M.B. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
Greco, Elisa 2018: Introduction: interpreting change in neoliberal Uganda. In: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. Zed Books, 2018 (with G Martiniello and J Wiegratz)
Greco, Elisa 2018: Conclusions: neoliberalism institutionalised. In: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. Zed Books, 2018 (with G Martiniello and J Wiegratz)
Greco, Elisa 2012: Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa: an overview, in Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa, eds. Tony Allan et al., Routledge: Abingdon.
Class, green grabs and agrarian climate justice: a theoretical reflection
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