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Agrarian Change
Agrarian Political Economy
agrarian transformation
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class analysis
comparative agrarian change case studies
Corporate Food Regime
East Asian NICs
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Everyday Resistance
food
Food Regime
Food Regime Analysis
Food Regime Concept
Landlord Class
livelihood
Livelihoods Analysis
Livelihoods Perspectives
Metabolic Rift
peasant
Peasant Differentiation
Peasant Farm Organisation
peasant livelihoods
Peasant Studies
political
political economy agriculture
qualitative research methods
Redistributive Land Reform
regime
Rich Peasantry
Rural Development Studies
rural social movements
sovereignty
sustainable
Sustainable Livelihoods Approach
Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Approaches
UN
Unitary Household Model
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World Development Report

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415591775
  • Weight: 490g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jul 2010
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and environmental – has put the nexus between ‘rural development’ and ‘development in general’ back onto the center stage of theoretical, policy and political agendas in the world today. Confronting these issues will require (re)engaging with critical theories, taking politics seriously, and utilizing rigorous and appropriate research methodologies. These are the common messages and implications of the various contributions to this collection in the context of a scholarship that is critical in two senses: questioning prescriptions from mainstream perspectives and interrogating popular conventions in radical thinking.

This book focuses on key perspectives, frameworks and methodologies in agrarian change and peasant studies. The contributors are leading scholars in the field of rural development studies: Henry Bernstein, Terence J. Byres, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman, Cristóbal Kay, Benedict Kerkvliet, Philip McMichael, Shahra Razavi, Ian Scoones and Teodor Shanin.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
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Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been deeply involved in rural social movements in internationally since the early 1980s. He is a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based international think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) and of the Oakland-based Food First/Development Policy Institute. He is the Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. His books include Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique (2007) and Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization (2008, with M. Edelman and C. Kay as co-editors).