Global capitalism and the future of agrarian society /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Dirlik, Arif, Prazniak, Roxann, Woodside, Alexander
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductory
  • Introduction / Arif Dirlik and Roxann Prazniak
  • The "end of the peasant" scenario : dream and nightmare / Alexander Woodside
  • The return of the peasant : possible? desirable? / Immanuel Wallerstein
  • The People's Republic of China
  • History, capitalism, and the making of the postsocialist Chinese peasant / Alexander Day
  • China experience, comparative advantage, and the rural reconstruction experiment / Wen Tiejun, Dong Xiaodan, Liu Xiangbo and Lau Kin Chi
  • The political economy of spatial inequality in China / Wang Shaoguang
  • Reserve the land for family farming : on the use of farmland and the future of the peasantry in China / Dong Zhenghua
  • Awaiting urbanization : urban village redevelopment in coastal urban China / Leslie Shieh
  • Public regulation of private relations : changing conditions of property regulation in China / Pitman B. Potter
  • Tricontinental perspectives
  • Primitive accumulation and the peasantry in the present era of neo-liberalism with reference to the Indian experience / Utsa Patnaik
  • Peasants in Indonesia and the politics of (peri)-urbanization / Abidin Kusno
  • Land occupations and land reform in Zimbabwe : toward the national democratic revolution / Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros
  • Polycultures of the mind : the "end" of the peasant and the birth of agroecology / Alejandro Rojas
  • Community capacity and challenges of Ecuoadorian agrarian farmer organizations for generating alternatives to pesticide use : a case study / Fabio Cabarcas
  • Epilogue
  • Drawing lessons from the 2008 food crisis / Jomo Kwame Sundaram.