Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-First Century: Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies

ISBN-13: 9781783608430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 488 str.

Julio Boltvinik; Susan Archer Mann; J. Boltvinik

Opis

Peasant farmers today still make up the majority of the world s poor, and thus any truly effective strategy of development and poverty alleviation will have to address their situation and concerns. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of poverty, development, and peasant studies until now. Peasant Poverty and Persistence provides an important critical perspective and corrective to debates about global rural poverty. By interweaving contributions from a variety of disciplines and bringing together scholars from around the globe, the book provides innovative new approaches to the agrarian question as well as new perspectives on the uneven pace of global development.
As the industrial scale of agriculture continues to grow at unsustainable levels, addressing the peasant model of agricultural production is crucial, making this book timely and essential reading for scholars in rural development, particularly in the Global South.
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Spis treści

Part I: Introducing the Book Foreword by Meghnad Desai Introduction - Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann Part II: Papers Session I: Theoretical Perspectives on Peasant Poverty and Persistence 1. Poverty and Persistence of the Peasantry. Background Paper - Julio Boltvinik 2. Rethinking Rustic Issues. Contributions to a Theory of Contemporary Peasantry - Armando Bartra 3. From Field to Fork: Labour Power, its Reproduction, and the Persistence of Peasant Poverty - Gordon Welty, Susan Mann, James Dickinson and Emily Blumenfeld 4. Baroque Modernity and Peasant Poverty in the Twenty-first Century - Luis Arizmendi Session II: Historical and Empirical Approaches 5. Agriculture/industry, Rural/urban, Peasants/workers: Some Reflections on Poverty, Persistence and Change - Henry Bernstein 6. Employment and Rural Poverty in Mexico - Araceli Damián and Edith Pacheco Session III: Environment, Food Crisis and Peasants 7. From the Persistence of the Peasantry in Capitalism to the Environmentalism of Indigenous Peoples and the Sustainability of Life - Enrique Leff 8. South American Peasants and Poor Farmers Facing Global Environmental Change: A Development Dilemma - Elma Montaña 9. Financialisation of the Food Sector and Peasant's Persistence - Kostas Vergopoulos Session IV: Policy, Self-reliance and Peasant Poverty 10. The Rise and Fall of the Agrarian Welfare State: Peasants, Globalisation, and the Privatisation of Development - Farshad A. Araghi 11. Overcoming Rural Poverty from the Bottom Up - David Barkin and Blanca Lemus Part III: Closing the Book 12. Dialogues and Debates on Peasant Poverty and Persistence: Around the Background Paper and Beyond - Julio Boltvinik