Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

Informationen zum Autor Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside Klappentext Historical and comparative analysis of how globalisation has affected agrarian societies. Includes contributors from the UN! China and India. Zusammenfassung This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Introductory; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The “End of the Peasantry” Scenario: Dream and Nightmare; Chapter 3: The Return of the Peasant: Possible? Desirable?; II: The People's Republic of China; Chapter 4: History, Capitalism, and the Making of the Postsocialist Chinese Peasant 1; Chapter 5: China Experience, Comparative Advantage, and the Rural Reconstruction Experiment 1; Chapter 6: The Political Economy of Spatial Inequality in China; Chapter 7: Reserve the Land for Family Farming; Chapter 8: Awaiting Urbanization; Chapter 9: Public Regulation of Private Relations; III: Tricontinental Perspectives; Chapter 10: Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry in the Present Era of Neoliberalism with Reference to the Indian Experience; Chapter 11: Peasants in Indonesia and the Politics of (Peri) Urbanization 1; Chapter 12: Land Occupations and Land Reform in Zimbabwe; Chapter 13: Polycultures of the Mind; Chapter 14: Community Capacity and Challenges of Ecuadorian Agrarian Farmer Organizations for Generating Alternatives to Pesticide Use; IV: Epilogue; Chapter 15: Drawing Lessons from the 2008 World Food Crisis

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• Authors: Arif Dirlik, Arif (EDT)/ Prazniak Dirlik, Dirlik Arif, Roxann Prazniak, Prazniak Roxann, Alexander Woodside, Woodside Alexander
• Assisted by: Arif Dirlik (Editor), Roxann Prazniak (Editor), Alexander Woodside (Editor)
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9781612050386
• ISBN: 978-1-61205-038-6
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries