Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century
PUBLICATION: New book in the CROP International Studies in Poverty Research Series, published by Zed Books, London. Edited by Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann. OPEN ACCESS
Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions. First, the century-old 'agrarian question': Why, compared to other capitalist forms of Production, has the peasantry persisted? Second, the 'agrarian poverty question': Why are a vast majority of peasants poor? Third, (how) are the first two questions related?
Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book provides a range of responses offering new theoretical, historical and policy perspectives.
'A provocative examination of the persistence of the world's peasantry and rural poverty that explores, challenges, and significantly advances one of the most influential lineages of scholarship that has shaped the contemporary sociology and political economy of agriculture.'
- Patrick H. Mooney, University of Kentucky
Book presentation and overview (pdf)
The book can be ordered from Zed Books
CHAPTER OVERVIEW |
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| Foreword by Meghnad Desai |
Introduction by Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann |
Chapter 1: Poverty and persistence of the peasantry: background paper |
Chapter 2: Rethinking rustic issues: contributions to a theory of contemporary peasantry |
Chapter 3: From field to fork: labour power, its reproduction, and the persistence of peasant poverty |
Chapter 4: Baroque modernity and peasant poverty in the twenty-first century |
Chapter 5: Agriculture/industry, rural/urban, peasants/workers: some reflections on poverty, persistence and change |
Chapter 6: Employment and rural poverty in Mexico |
Chapter 7: From the persistence of the peasantry in capitalism to the environmentalism of indigenous peoples and the sustainability of life |
Chapter 8: South American peasants and poor farmers facing global environmental change: a development dilemma |
Chapter 9: Financialisation of the food sector and peasants' persistence |
Chapter 10: The rise and fall of the agrarian welfare state: peasants, globalisation, and the privatisation of development |
Chapter 11: Overcoming rural poverty from the bottom up |
Chapter 12: Dialogues and debates on peasant poverty and persistence: around the background paper and beyond |
