New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

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Ryan Isakson (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)

New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy

Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

Ryan Isakson (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)

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Routledge
24 July 2015

Political economy; Agriculture & related industries; Fisheries & related industries; Human geography

Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production.

This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Edited by: Ryan Isakson (University of Toronto Scarborough Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781138916395
ISBN 10: 1138916390
Series: Critical Agrarian Studies
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy 2. Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene 3. The problem of property in industrial fisheries 4. The role of rural indebtedness in the evolution of capitalism 5. Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains 6. ‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance 7. Financialization, distance and global food politics 8. Moral economy in a global era: the politics of provisions during contemporary food price spikes 9. The government of poverty and the arts of survival: mobile and recombinant strategies at the margins of the South African economy 10. Rural-urban migration in Vietnam and China: gendered householding, production of space and the state 11. Forests lost and found in tropical Latin America: the woodland ‘green revolution’

"Madeleine Fairbairn, Jonathan Fox, S. Ryan Isakson, Michael Levien, Nancy Lee Peluso, Shahra Razavi, Ian Scoones, Kalyanakrishnan ""Shivi"" Sivaramakrishnan"