Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization
By: edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman, and Cristóbal Kay.
Contributors: Borras, Saturnino M.; Edelman, Marc.; Kay, Cristóbal.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781405190411
Subjects: Peasantry; Transnationalism; Solidarity; Culture and globalization; Plant biotechnology -- Political aspects; Land reform
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns and impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay; title: Peasants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip McMichael; title: Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman; title: La Vía Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform / Saturnino M. Borras Jr.; title: Late mobilization : transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford; title: Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford; title: Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Newell; title: Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental movements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman; title: Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local production for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair; title: Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada; title: From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le Mons Walker; title: Where there is no movement: local resistance and the potential for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.