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Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century analyzes the emergence and consolidation of dynamic transnational agrarian social movements that seek to remake rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems."--

This collection brings together many world-renowned scholars in the first collection of its kind: a critical examination of the history, theoretical foundations, and political program of food sovereignty. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

This collection brings together world-renowned and early-career scholars in the first in-depth empirical examination of on-the-ground responses to land grabbing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

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This collection brings together world-renowned and early-career scholars in the first in-depth empirical examination of on-the-ground responses to land grabbing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America.

This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica, leading to major cutbacks in the social programs that had permitted the rural poor to attain an acceptable standard of living and a modicum of dignity. Peasants were in the forefront of movements a...

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization" is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the "magic" of the free market. Explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism Framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to stud...

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization" is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the "magic" of the free market. Explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism Framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to stud...

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This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica, leading to major cutbacks in the social programs that had permitted the rural poor to attain an acceptable standard of living and a modicum of dignity.Peasants were in the forefront of movements ag...