Borras / Edelman / Kay Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0720-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, E-Book

Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers whostruggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge theWorld Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.
* Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of geneticallymodified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop downrubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families,'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resistcorrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited indesperation, return from abroad to transform their communities
* Little-known transnational agrarian movements of the earlytwentieth century share the stage with more recent, high-profileglobal alliances, such as Vía Campesina
* Celebrates a dynamic sector of international civil society, andtackles the thorny questions of successes and failures, ethical andpolitical dilemmas, troubled alliances with NGOs, protestrepertoires, and representation claims
* Analyzes contemporary collective action in all its complexity,acknowledging ambiguities and contradictions, posing challengingquestions, and providing concrete strategies for scholars andactivists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borras, Saturnino M.

Edelman, Marc

Kay, Cristóbal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics,Campaigns and Impact (Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman andCristóbal Kay).
2. Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please. . . (Philip McMichael).
3. Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America:Histories, Challenges, Prospects (Marc Edelman).
4. La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for AgrarianReform (Saturnino M. Borras Jr).
5 'Late Mobilization': Transnational PeasantNetworks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa(Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford).
6. Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil(Ian Scoones).
7. Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America: Democratization,Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization (Peter Newell).
8. Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and EnvironmentalMovements in Indonesia (Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and NoerFauzi Rachman).
9. Whose Rules Rule? Contested Projects to Certify 'LocalProduction for Distant Consumers' (Harriet Friedmann andAmber Mcnair).
10. Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico(Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada).
11. From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China andthe Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements (Kathy LeMons Walker).
12. Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and thePotential for Solidarity (Kevin Malseed).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Saturnino M. Borras Jr is Canada Research Chair inInternational Development Studies at Saint Mary's University,Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been deeply involved in(trans)national agrarian movements since the early 1980s as apolitical activist. His books include Pro-Poor Land Reform: ACritique (2007), Competing Views and Strategies on AgrarianReform - Vol 1, International Perspective, and Vol 2,Philippine Perspective (2008); On Just Grounds: Strugglingfor Agrarian Justice and Citizenship Rights in the RuralPhilippines (2005, co-edited with J Franco), Land,Livelihoods and Development in an Era of Globalization (2007,co-edited with H Akram Lodhi and C Kay), Market-Led AgrarianReform (2008, co-edited with C Kay and E Lahiff).
Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at HunterCollege and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.He has also taught or been a visiting researcher at Yale, Fordham,Princeton, Columbia, the Institute for Advanced Study, and theuniversities of Illinois, Tashkent and Costa Rica. His researchinterests include Latin American agrarian history, ruraldevelopment, and the politics of controlling markets, whetherthrough welfare states, social movements, or global trade rules.His books include The Logic of the Latifundio (1992) andPeasants Against Globalization (1999), as well as aco-edited volume The Anthropology of Development andGlobalization (Blackwell, 2005) and the co-authored SocialDemocracy in the Global Periphery (2007).
Cristóbal Kay is Professor of Development Studiesand Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies, TheHague. His previous appointments were at the University of Chile inSantiago, the Catholic University of Peru in Lima and theUniversity of Glasgow. He has done research on agrarian and ruralissues in several Latin American countries. Some of his co-editedbooks are Labour and Development in Rural Cuba (1988),Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside(1992), Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asiaand Latin America (2000) and Peasants and Globalization:Political Economy, Rural Transformation and the AgrarianQuestion (2008).