Cultivating dissent : work, identity, and praxis in rural Languedoc / Winnie Lem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lem, Winnie.

Series:

SUNY series in national identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Country life.

Languedoc (France)--Social conditions.

Languedoc (France).

Country life--France--Languedoc.

Capitalism--France--Languedoc--Influence.

France--Languedoc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 268 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1999.

Summary:

Focusing on a community of small family farmers in the Languedoc region of Mediterranean France, Cultivating Dissent shows how rural people struggle against disintegration brought on by the development of capitalism and state modernization imperatives. Lem challenges the image that small farmers tend to be either uninterested in politics or rather conservative in their views. She also argues against another prevailing image of agrarian people which suggests that the distinctiveness of their regional and local cultures disappears when they become embedded in the commercial world of the market and in modern national culture. Of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, Cultivating Dissent presents a case in which rural people conform neither to the image of the quiescent and conservative farmer nor to that of the culturally assimilated national subject.

Contents:

Introduction A Disappearing World? 1

Part 1 Place, Politics, and Identity 21

Chapter 1 The Place, The People, and the Land 23

Chapter 2 People and Politics in Rural Languedoc 45

Chapter 3 Cultures of Class and Region: Collective Identity and Its Configurations 77

Part 2 Work, Social Relations, and Everyday Life 103

Chapter 4 Negotiating Consensus: Production, Reproduction, and Power in the Domestic Realm 105

Chapter 5 Engendered Practices: The Politics of Wine, Women, and Work 137

Chapter 6 Between Friends, Among Neighbors 165

Chapter 7 Harvesting Disenchantment: Cooperatives, Control, and Alienation 197

Chapter 8 Subjects, Subjectivity, and Praxis in Late Capitalism 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.

ISBN:

0791441873

0791441881

OCLC:

40489379