Change and Continuity in Agrarian Relations
Author: Gopal Krishna Karanth
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9788170225553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase study of Rajapura, village in Bangalore District.
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The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Latin America
Author: Matilda Baraibar Norberg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030245856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Praguay, and Uruguay. By comparatively examining how these states have acted in a context of global driven market forces and historically formed institutions, the monograph illuminates the differing capacities of state autonomy under the present era of globalized agriculture.
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Author: Henry Bernstein
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1565493567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.
The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Author: Saturnino Borras Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1317985419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also addresses the emergent social and political relations in the biofuel complex and, given the impacts on natural resources and sustainability, engages with questions about people-environment interactions. At the same time, the book is concerned with the politics of representation, that is, what are the discursive frames through which biofuels are promoted and/or opposed? The book analyses the institutional structures, and cultures of energy consumption on which a biofuels complex depends, and the alternative political and ecological visions emerging that call the biofuels complex into question. Across sixteen chapters presenting material from five regions across the North-South divide and focusing on fourteen countries including Brazil, Indonesia, India, USA and Germany, these topics are addressed within the following themes: global (re)configurations; agro-ecological visions; conflicts, resistances and diverse outcomes; state, capital and society relations; mobilising opposition, creating alternatives; and change and continuity. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Directions of Change in Rural Egypt
Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789774244834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat emerges is a picture of a rural Egypt that is full of life, dramatically evolving, and treading a delicate line between progress and impoverishment.
Agrarian Capitalism, War and Peace in Colombia
Author: Jacobo Grajales
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-16
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1000398749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive research conducted in Colombia since 2009, this book addresses the connection between land grabbing and agrarian capitalism, as well as the unfulfilled promises of peace and justice. While land remains a key resource at the core of many contemporary civil wars, the impact of high-intensity armed violence on the formation of agrarian capitalism is seldom discussed. Drawing on nearly 200 interviews, archival research, and geographical data, this book examines land grabbing and the role of violence in capital with a particular focus on one key actor in the Colombian civil war: paramilitary militias. This book demonstrates how the intricate ties between armed conflict and economy formation are obscured by the widespread belief that violence is a radical form of action, breaking with the normal course of society and disconnected from the legal economy. Under this view, dispossession is perceived as diametrically opposed to capitalist accumulation. This belief is enormously influential in precisely those bureaucratic agencies that are in charge of peacebuilding, both domestically and internationally. However, this narrow view of the relationship between armed violence and capitalism belies the close ties between plunder and lawful profit, and obscures the continuity between violent dispossession and the free market. By the same token, it legitimizes post-war inequality in the name of capitalist development. The book concludes by arguing that the promotion of radical democracy in the government of land and rural development emerges as the only reasonable path for pacifying a violent polity. The book is essential reading for students, scholars, and development aid practitioners interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian capitalism, civil wars, and conflict resolution.
Finding The Middle Path
Author: B. S. Baviskar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0429723628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoviet-style socialism has failed; but in Russia, China, and India the transition to capitalism has proven hazardous. Elsewhere, capitalism itself appears to be in crisis, often failing to meet the fundamental needs of workers, small farmers, and even the middle classes. Clearly, the world needs enterprises that are both economically efficient and
Rural Labour Relations in India
Author: T.J. Byres
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1135299536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is about the emerging development trajectories of rural labour relations in India, based on studies from its regions and states. Its overarching theme is the rural class conflict and the results of such conflict, and the link between this and the nature and impact of state intervention. Vigorous emancipatory processes are identified, and the limitations of and contradictions inherent in such processes are examined. Both powerful general trends and significant regional variations are distinguished.
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Latin America
Author: Matilda Baraibar Norberg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-24
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 3030245861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Praguay, and Uruguay. By comparatively examining how these states have acted in a context of global driven market forces and historically formed institutions, the monograph illuminates the differing capacities of state autonomy under the present era of globalized agriculture.
Rebels From the Mud Houses
Author: George Kunnath
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1351418742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.
