New Directions in Political Economy: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781138122796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Ryan Isakson

Opis

Through an exploration of the key processes contouring contemporary agrarian transformation – including the financialization of food and agriculture, climate change, forest resurgence, and social responses to rising food prices – this collection explores the frontiers of agrarian political economy in the 21^st century.

This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy  2. Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene  3. The problem of property in industrial fisheries  4. The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism  5. Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains  6. ‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance  7. Financialization, distance and global food politics  8. Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes  9. The government of poverty and the arts of survival: mobile and recombinant strategies at the margins of the South African economy  10. Rural-urban migration in Vietnam and China: gendered householding, production of space and the state  11. Forests lost and found in tropical Latin America: the woodland ‘green revolution’

O autorze

Madeleine Fairbairn, Jonathan Fox, S. Ryan Isakson, Michael Levien, Nancy Lee Peluso, Shahra Razavi, Ian Scoones, Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan