Global capitalism and the future of agrarian society
By: edited by Arif Dirlik, Roxann Prazniak, and Alexander Woodside
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612050379; 9781612050386
Subjects: Urbanization; History; Case studies; Government policy; Peasants; Capitalism; Land tenure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introductory; title: Introduction / Arif Dirlik and Roxann Prazniak; title: The "end of the peasant" scenario : dream and nightmare / Alexander Woodside; title: The return of the peasant : possible? desirable? / Immanuel Wallerstein; title: The People's Republic of China; title: History, capitalism, and the making of the postsocialist Chinese peasant / Alexander Day; title: China experience, comparative advantage, and the rural reconstruction experiment / Wen Tiejun, Dong Xiaodan, Liu Xiangbo and Lau Kin Chi; title: The political economy of spatial inequality in China / Wang Shaoguang; title: Reserve the land for family farming : on the use of farmland and the future of the peasantry in China / Dong Zhenghua; title: Awaiting urbanization : urban village redevelopment in coastal urban China / Leslie Shieh; title: Public regulation of private relations : changing conditions of property regulation in China / Pitman B. Potter; title: Tricontinental perspectives; title: Primitive accumulation and the peasantry in the present era of neo-liberalism with reference to the Indian experience / Utsa Patnaik; title: Peasants in Indonesia and the politics of (peri)-urbanization / Abidin Kusno; title: Land occupations and land reform in Zimbabwe : toward the national democratic revolution / Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros; title: Polycultures of the mind : the "end" of the peasant and the birth of agroecology / Alejandro Rojas; title: Community capacity and challenges of Ecuoadorian agrarian farmer organizations for generating alternatives to pesticide use : a case study / Fabio Cabarcas; title: Epilogue; title: Drawing lessons from the 2008 food crisis / Jomo Kwame Sundaram.