Global capitalism and the future of agrarian society / edited by Arif Dirlik, Roxann Prazniak, and Alexander Woodside.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dirlik, Arif.

Prazniak, Roxann

Woodside, Alexander

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--History--21st century.

Capitalism.

Land tenure--Case studies.

Land tenure.

Peasants--History--21 st century.

Peasants.

Urbanization--Government policy--Case studies.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Government policy.

History.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

Prompted in large part by an interest in the vast changes that have occurred with agrarian society in China in recent years, the editors (of the U. of British Columbia, Canada, and the U. of Oregon, US) present 15 papers that grapple with three key issues: the long-term relationship between capitalism and agrarian society, the city and the countryside in the analysis of agrarian society, and the question of the peasant as a social category. Opening chapters review world-historical trends and consider what the "end of the peasantry" scenario would mean for world social systems (with influential world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein contributing one chapter). Six chapters then focus on China as a paradigmatic example of the issue, examining the transformation of the peasantry, the political economy of spatial inequality, the use of farmland, processes of urban village redevelopment in coastal urban China, and changing conditions of property regulation. Five chapters than provide more international perspectives, with discussions of experiences in India, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and Ecuador and an examination of the issue in relation to food security and sustainability in Latin America. An epilogue considers lessons from the 2008 world food crisis. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introductory

Introduction / Arif Dirlik and Roxann Prazniak

The "end of the peasant" scenario : dream and nightmare / Alexander Woodside

The return of the peasant : possible? desirable? / Immanuel Wallerstein

The People's Republic of China

History, capitalism, and the making of the postsocialist Chinese peasant / Alexander Day

China experience, comparative advantage, and the rural reconstruction experiment / Wen Tiejun, Dong Xiaodan, Liu Xiangbo and Lau Kin Chi

The political economy of spatial inequality in China / Wang Shaoguang

Reserve the land for family farming : on the use of farmland and the future of the peasantry in China / Dong Zhenghua

Awaiting urbanization : urban village redevelopment in coastal urban China / Leslie Shieh

Public regulation of private relations : changing conditions of property regulation in China / Pitman B. Potter

Tricontinental perspectives

Primitive accumulation and the peasantry in the present era of neo-liberalism with reference to the Indian experience / Utsa Patnaik

Peasants in Indonesia and the politics of (peri)-urbanization / Abidin Kusno

Land occupations and land reform in Zimbabwe : toward the national democratic revolution / Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros

Polycultures of the mind : the "end" of the peasant and the birth of agroecology / Alejandro Rojas

Community capacity and challenges of Ecuoadorian agrarian farmer organizations for generating alternatives to pesticide use : a case study / Fabio Cabarcas

Epilogue

Drawing lessons from the 2008 food crisis / Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

1612050379

9781612050386

1612050387

OCLC:

714715795

Publisher Number:

99949502198