Peasants and globalization : political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question / edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, 1958-

Kay, Cristóbal, 1944-

Series:

Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 2.

Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Case studies.

Rural development.

Peasants--Case studies.

Peasants.

Globalization--Case studies.

Globalization.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 347 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Part 1 Peasant Livelihoods and the Agrarian Question 1

1 The agrarian question: peasants and rural change / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristobal Kay 3

Part 2 Historical Perspectives on Agrarian Change 35

2 Peasants and the market imperative: the origins of capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood 37

3 The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared / Terence J. Byres 57

4 Nineteenth century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries / Amiya Kumar Bagchi 83

5 The invisible hand and the visible foot: peasants, dispossession and globalization / Farshad Araghi 111

6 Peasant struggles for land and agrarian reform in Latin America / Miguel Teubal 148

Part 3 Contemporary Perspectives on Agrarian Change 167

7 The globalization of manufacturing production: Warrenite fantasies and uneven and unequal realities / Ray Kiely 169

8 Gender justice, land and the agrarian question in Southern Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin 190

9 The political economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristobal Kay, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr 214

10 Agrarian questions from transition to globalization / Henry Bernstein 239

11 The Southern question: agrarian questions of labour and capital / Michael J. Watts 262

12 Food sovereignty, social reproduction and the agrarian question / Philip McMichael 288

Part 4 The Agrarian Question, Past and Present 313

13 Neoliberal globalization, the traits of rural accumulation and rural politics: the agrarian question in the twenty-first century / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristobal Kay 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415446297

0415446295

9780203891834

020389183X

OCLC:

212908840