The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle: Resistance, Rights and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781783487806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 200 str.

Robin Dunford

Opis

New waves of land grabbingare working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North. But peasants are fighting back.Theyhave come together to contest dispossession through place-based and transnational forms of activism. In so doing, they have articulated a demand for food sovereignty. They claim thata democratically organized food system in which smallholder producers produce their own food on their own territory can feed the world whilst cooling the planet. This book explores practices of peasant resistance. Itsaim is to show how grass roots peasant activists havebeen able to demand transnational social and political change. In the process, the bookexamines the grassroots forms of activism that enable peasants to reclaim land upon which to work and from which to live. It explores how diverse grass roots movements have been able to connect and unite in order to contest transnational dynamics of oppression. Moreover, it discusses how practices of peasant activism transform howwe think, andought to think, about human rights and global democracy. By also highlighting the problems that peasants continue to face, the bookindicates that the future of sustainable peasant livelihoods depends on the will of global organizations and transnational society to not just listento the voices of peasant activists, but to respond to them too."