Agrarian Marxism

ISBN-13: 9780367186562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Michael Levien; Michael Watts; Hairong Yan

Opis

This comprehensive volume advances heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism, illustrating that it remains a dynamic theoretical program offering powerful insights into agrarian change and politics in the 21^st century. It was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Agrarian Marxism Michael Levien, Michael Watts and Yan Hairong  2. An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa Ricardo Jacobs  3. ‘Hot chocolate’: financialized global value chains and cocoa production in Ecuador Thomas F. Purcell  4. Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah  5. Gender and class relations in rural India Smriti Rao  6. Custom and exploitation: rethinking the origins of the modern African chieftaincy in the political economy of colonialism Gavin Capps  7. Agrarian questions of labor in urban India: middle migrants, translocal householding and the intersectional politics of social reproduction Vinay Gidwani and Priti Ramamurthy  8. From South Africa to China: land, migrant labor and the semi-proletarian thesis revisited Shaohua Zhan and Ben Scully  9. The politics of classes of labour: fragmentation, reproduction zones and collective action in Karnataka, India Jonathan Pattenden  10. Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations Ben Cousins, Alex Dubb, Donna Hornby and Farai Mtero  11. Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa Andries du Toit  12. Marx and Chayanov at the margins: understanding agrarian change in Java Ben White  13. The ‘peasant problem’ in the Russian revolution(s), 1905–1929 Henry Bernstein