| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- History -- 21st century
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Land tenure -- Case studies
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Peasants -- History -- 21 st century
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Urbanization -- Government policy -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
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Capitalism
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Land tenure
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Peasants
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Urbanization -- Government policy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dirlik, Arif
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Prazniak, Roxann
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Woodside, Alexander
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| ISBN |
1612051693 |
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9781612051697 |
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