Agrarian Questions and Enduring Peasants: A Classic Debate Enters the Age of Globalisation

Borchgrevink, Axel

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“…Poor peasants usually sold their labor for wages, while the rich were those who had accumulated means of production and could hire labor. Under capitalist pressure, there would be a polarization among the peasantry, and middle peasants would become either poor or rich peasants (Borchgrevink 2001).…”

Section: Peasants' Disappearance Under Non-peripheral Capitalism?mentioning

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Disappearing peasants?

Voiculescu

2008

Focaal

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This article explores the recent transformations of the Romanian peasantry and critically discusses interpretations of these changes as either indicating the persistence or the disappearance of peasants in Romania. It shows that beyond the labels of depeasantization and repeasantization, which are extensively used to describe rural scenarios under socialism and postsocialism, it is important to take analytic account of the more complex social relations between different actors that are developing under the impact of interacting local and global processes. Given the sharp differences between peasants and the new class of agricultural rentiers, as well as the variations within the latter group, the different rent regimes in which peasants negotiate their control over land and subsistence involve complex relationships and statuses. The article concludes by hypothesizing possible ways in which all of these relationships could be transformed in the long run in the new context of the EU agricultural policy and by discussing two possible scenarios for the Romanian rural landscape, namely, those of peripheral and nonperipheral capitalism.

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Section: Peasants' Disappearance Under Non-peripheral Capitalism?mentioning

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Disappearing peasants?

Voiculescu

2008

Focaal

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“…Arguing that the economic calculations of peasants are rooted in subsistence needs rather than profit, he claimed that peasant households would therefore increase their labour output and intensity when faced with difficult circumstances (Chayanov 1966). This approach would mean that middle peasant households could survive under difficult circumstances, while more favourable conditions would not see a change in their class characteristics nor lead to an accumulation of wealth (Brass 1991;Borchegrevink 2001). 5 Concrete cases of such dilemmas, for example, include whether or not to donate to public radio or ride a bicycle rather than a car during a pollution alert (Dawes et al 1988).…”

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Agrarian Angst: Rural Resistance in Southeast Asia

Turner

Caouette

2009

Geography Compass

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Southeast Asia has witnessed dramatic transformations in the rural sector over the past 60 years, first with the Green Revolution, and more recently with diverse multi‐scalar economic and socio‐political processes including the growth of cash crops, export processing zones, land conversions, genetically modified crops, free trade agreements, and the growing complexity of rural‐urban connections. With such a multiplicity of changes, many directly linked to globalisation, come numerous forms of resistance, as individuals and communities struggle against what they see as unjust consequences. These different resistance measures to rural transformations are the focus of this article. While critiquing the literature on different conceptualisations of resistance, from rural resistance at the micro level, through to collective action and open protest, revolutionary movements, and even regional and global transnational movements, we propose three core arguments. First, in order to capture the diversity of forms of contemporary rural resistance, one needs to use a multi‐scalar approach. Previous analytical constructs such as ‘local’ and ‘global’ are inadequate to examine and explain the forms of resistance taking place. Second, rural resistance comes in a complexity of forms, is diversifying rapidly, and is never static. Resistance measures are context contingent, shaped by different worldviews and shift according to local circumstances, the opening and closing of opportunities structures, and the endogenous peculiarities of resistance dynamics. Third, a focus on resistance to contemporary agrarian change in Southeast Asia must recognise agency. We demonstrate that there is much to be gained by taking an interactive standpoint, arguing that local, national, regional, and even global resistance has as much to do with how the actors’ themselves define their field of protest as with the specific nature of their targets.

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Agrarian Transitions, Rural Resistance and Peasant Politics in Southeast Asia

Drahmoune

2013

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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In light of the recent revival of agrarian studies in the scholarship of Southeast Asia, this paper reviews three recent publications that are concerned with specific aspects of what has been framed as “agrarian transition”, “agrarian change” or “agrarian transformation”. It seeks to identify new perspectives and fresh approaches to the analytical challenges that arise from the multi-faceted and intertwined nature of agrarian change in the region. Further, it considers the implications of these processes – specifically in social, political and economic terms – for the rural population and examines their ways of embracing and resisting these changes. By emphasising the explanatory potential that linking approaches, theories and methodologies of different research traditions and disciplines in an integrative fashion has, it will be argued that – in order to enhance our understanding of people's responses to rural change – it is essential to recognise their agency and perceptions as interconnected across multiple scales within broader structural conditions.

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Agrarian Questions and Enduring Peasants: A Classic Debate Enters the Age of Globalisation

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