Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Borras, Saturnino M., Edelman, Marc, Kay, Cristóbal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Series:Wiley online library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns and impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay
  • Peasants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip McMichael
  • Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman
  • La Vía Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform / Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
  • Late mobilization : transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford
  • Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford
  • Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Newell
  • Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental movements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman
  • Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local production for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair
  • Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada
  • From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le Mons Walker
  • Where there is no movement: local resistance and the potential for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.