At various points during the semester we shall discuss actual proposals and how to develop a compelling research question. The presentation should not take more than 15 minutes. I expect that everyone will participate in the discussion. I shall make some obervations but my input will be limited. The function of this is to place our discussion and the monograph on a larger landscape of literatures and ideas and theorizing of peasant economies.
Students can certainly participate in the second period two, and can ask questions.
But the major function will be to situate our discussions and for me to provide something of a roadmap for related debates and literature. Required texts Gerald Creed, Domesticating Revolution . Pennsylvania State Press, 1997. James Scott, Seeing Like A State , Yale University Press, 1998. Robert Paxton, French Peasant Fascism , Oxford University Press, 1997.