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Handbook of critical agrarian studies / edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Rural.
- Rural conditions.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (740 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. An introduction to the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
- PART I ORIGINS
- 2. Frontiers, regimes and learning from history
- 3. Origins of peasant studies
- 4. The diversity of classical agrarian Marxism
- 5. Debates on the historical origins of agrarian capitalism
- 6. An alternative perspective on the agrarian question in Europe and in the developing countries
- PART II CONCEPTS
- 7. The agrarian question
- 8. Class
- 9. Land
- 10. Frontiers: Commodification and territorialization
- 11. Labour
- 12. Labor and social reproduction
- 13. Peasants
- 14. Gender
- 15. Gender, nature, body
- 16. Kinship
- 17. Generation
- 18. Intersectionality
- 19. Merchant and usurer's capital
- 20. Agricultural markets
- 21. Financialization
- 22. Agrarian law
- 23. Territoriality
- 24. Agrarian/land reform
- 25. Food regimes
- 26. Crisis
- 27. Food sovereignty, food security and the right to food
- PART III METHODOLOGIES
- 28. Qualitative research
- 29. Quantitative analysis
- 30. Geographical research
- 31. Questions and answers
- PART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- 32. The agrarian question in Africa: Past, present and future
- 33. Social movements in times of extractivism: The ecoterritorial turn in Latin America
- 34. Agrarian change in China: Historical origins and competing perspectives
- 35. Beyond confrontation: Silent growers, symbiosis and subtle peasantness in post-socialist Eurasia
- 36. BRICS and global agrarian transformations
- 37. Neoliberalism and the crisis in India's countryside
- 38. Crises of capitalism in the countryside: Debates from the South
- PART V DEBATES
- 39. Land grabs
- 40. Water for agriculture
- 41. Biofuels
- 42. Industrial fisheries and oceanic accumulation.
- 43. Forests and current transitions
- 44. Artisanal and small-scale mining
- 45. Footloose labour
- 46. Contract farming
- 47. Biotechnology
- 48. Agroecology
- 49. Identities and culture in the rural world
- 50. Everyday politics in agrarian societies
- 51. The state and rural politics
- 52. Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping
- 53. Rural social movements/transnational agrarian movements
- 54. Industrial agriculture and agrarian extractivism
- 55. Rural dispossession and capital accumulation
- 56. Ecological crises in the rural world
- 57. Microfinance and rural financial inclusion
- 58. Rural indebtedness
- 59. The neoliberal diet
- 60. Meatification
- 61. Digital agriculture
- 62. COVID-19
- PART VI TRAJECTORIES
- 63. The interface of critical development studies and critical agrarian studies
- 64. Political ecology
- 65. Pluriloguing postcolonial studies and critical agrarian studies
- 66. Agrarian justice: Land, human rights and democratization
- 67. Strategic linkages between STS and critical agrarian studies
- 68. The Capitalocene response to the Anthropocene
- 69. Degrowth in agrarian and fisheries studies
- 70. Reconfiguring the intersection between urban food movements and agrarian struggles: Building an urban political agroecology praxis
- 71. Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside
- 72. Feasible utopias
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Akram-Lodhi, A. H. Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
- ISBN:
- 1-78897-246-5
- OCLC:
- 1289368816
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