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The New Peasantries Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization

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By: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
352 pages, Photos, maps, figs, tabs
Publisher: Earthscan
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  • The New Peasantries ISBN: 9781844078820 Paperback Oct 2009 Out of Print #180873
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About this book

This book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agrarian markets and food industries. It argues that the peasant condition is characterized by a struggle for autonomy that finds expression in the creation and development of a self-governed resource base and associated forms of sustainable development. In this respect the peasant mode of farming fundamentally differs from entrepreneurial and corporate ways of farming.

The author demonstrates that the peasantries are far from waning. Instead, both industrialized and developing countries are witnessing complex and richly chequered processes of 're-peasantization', with peasants now numbering over a billion worldwide. The author's arguments are based on three longitudinal studies (in Peru, Italy and The Netherlands) that span 30 years and provide original and thought-provoking insights into rural and agrarian development processes. The book combines and integrates different bodies of literature: the rich traditions of peasant studies, development sociology, rural sociology, neo-institutional economics and the recently emerging debates on Empire.

Contents

Preface
Setting the Scene
What, Then, Is the Peasantry?
Catacaos: Repeasantization in Latin America
Parmalat: A European Example of a Food Empire
Peasants and Entrepreneurs (Parma Revisited)
Rural Development: European Expressions of Repeasantization
Striving for Autonomy at Higher Levels of Aggregation: Territorial Co-operatives
Tamed Hedgerows, a Global Cow and a 'Bug': The Creation and Demolition of Controllability
Empire, Food and Farming: A Synthesis
The Peasant Principle
Index

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Biography

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is Professor in Transition Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and adviser to the Italian Minister of Agriculture. He has authored or co-authored a wide range of books and papers on rural development, land reform processes, peasants, styles of farming, agrarian and food markets, and the impact of technological change.
Out of Print
By: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
352 pages, Photos, maps, figs, tabs
Publisher: Earthscan
Media reviews
'Jan Douwe van der Ploeg combines long engagement in the empirical study of farming and farmers, and of alternative agricultures, in very different parts of the world, with a sophisticated analytical acumen and capacity to provoke in fruitful ways.' Henry Bernstein, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
'This book makes a timely and original contribution. The author revitalizes our interest in peasant societies through an in-depth examination of how rural populations in state systems respond to neo-liberal globalization.' Robert E. Rhoades, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, US
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