New directions in agrarian political economy
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New directions in agrarian political economy
(Critical agrarian studies / series editor, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., . Global agrarian transformations ; v. 1)
Routledge, 2016
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production.
This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy 2. Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene 3. The problem of property in industrial fisheries 4. The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism 5. Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains 6. 'Like gold with yield': evolving intersections between farmland and finance 7. Financialization, distance and global food politics 8. Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes 9. The government of poverty and the arts of survival: mobile and recombinant strategies at the margins of the South African economy 10. Rural-urban migration in Vietnam and China: gendered householding, production of space and the state 11. Forests lost and found in tropical Latin America: the woodland 'green revolution'
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