《農民研究雜志》（JPS）是農村政治與發展領域的領軍期刊，它激發和促進了對農村社會結構、制度、行動者和變化過程以及與農村世界相關的批判性思考。它促進了對階級和其他社會群體之間的土地權力關系是如何被創造、理解、爭論和改造的研究。JPS特別關注農業社會中邊緣化群體的“代理”問題，特別是他們的自主性和解釋和改變自身條件的能力。

A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies ( JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.