《农民研究杂志》（JPS）是农村政治与发展领域的领军期刊，它激发和促进了对农村社会结构、制度、行动者和变化过程以及与农村世界相关的批判性思考。它促进了对阶级和其他社会群体之间的土地权力关系是如何被创造、理解、争论和改造的研究。JPS特别关注农业社会中边缘化群体的“代理”问题，特别是他们的自主性和解释和改变自身条件的能力。
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.