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 21st century. It was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
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 21st century. It was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Michael Levien is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (2018). Michael Watts is Class of 63 Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California Berkeley, USA. Yan Hairong teaches in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China (2008), and co-author of The Chinese are the Worst?: Human Rights and Labor Practices in Zambian Mining (2012) and China in Africa: Discourses and Practices (in Chinese, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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