The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. - University of Adelaide

The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. - University of Adelaide








BOOK
The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.; 2008
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 1950-

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Title
The new peasantries : struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.
Author
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 1950-
Subjects
Peasantry
Agricultural systems
ISBN/ISSN
9781844075584 (hardback)
Creation Date
2008

Description

1. Setting the Scene -- 

2. What, Then, Is the Peasantry? -- 

3. Catacaos: Repeasantization in Latin America -- 

4. Parmalat: A European Example of a Food Empire -- 

5. Peasants and Entrepreneurs (Parma Revisited ) -- 

6. Rural Development: European Expressions of Repeasantization -- 

7. Striving for Autonomy at Higher Levels of Aggregation: Territorial Co-operatives -- 

8. Tamed Hedgerows, a Global Cow and a 'Bug': TheCreation and Demolition of Controllability -- 

9. Empire, Food and Farming: A Synthesis -- 

10. The Peasant Principle.

"The book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agrarian markets and food industries. It argues that the peasant condition is characterized by a struggle for autonomy that finds expression in the creation and development of a self-governed resource base and associated forms of sustainable development."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan
Format
xx, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm..
Language
English
Variant title(s)
Struggles for autonomy and sustainability in an era of empire and globalization