Class Culture And The Agrarian Myth

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004273948

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Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth by Tom Brass Pdf

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.

Author : Dr Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136325298

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Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism by Dr Tom Brass Pdf

Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424706

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Ian Scoones,Marc Edelman,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Lyda Fernanda Forero,Ruth Hall,Wendy Wolford,Ben White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000442069

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Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World by Ian Scoones,Marc Edelman,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Lyda Fernanda Forero,Ruth Hall,Wendy Wolford,Ben White Pdf

The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on the rise of multi-class mobilisation and resistance, alongside wider counter-movements and alternative practices, which together confront authoritarianism and nationalist populism. The book includes 20 chapters written by contributors to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a global network of academics and activists committed to both reflective analysis and political engagement. Debates about ‘populism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘authoritarianism’ and more have exploded recently, but relatively little of this has focused on the rural dimensions. Yet, wherever one looks, the rural aspects are key – not just in electoral calculus, but in understanding underlying drivers of authoritarianism and populism, and potential counter-movements to these. Whether because of land grabs, voracious extractivism, infrastructural neglect or lack of services, rural peoples’ disillusionment with the status quo has had deeply troubling consequences and occasionally hopeful ones, as the chapters in this book show. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Marlon Henkel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312939530

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21st Century Homestead: Sustainable Agriculture I by Marlon Henkel Pdf

Author : Lindsay Falvey
Publisher : Thaksin University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780975100073

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Agriculture & Philosophy: Agricultural Science in Philosophy by Lindsay Falvey Pdf

Agriculture and philosophy have been parts of a whole across history and remain so. Philosophy informs wellbeing and contentment amidst the vagaries of existence, the primary concern of which has always been security of food. Science, once known as natural philosophy, is a major means of philosophical advance today. Agricultural science is presented as comprising all of these components. The philosophical quest to be at ease in nature extends from pre-historical times into our unknown future, and employs diverse vehicles to convey insights across generations via myths, legends religion, academic study and ritual practices. Expressing esoteric concepts has employed agricultural metaphor across the historical era as it has been our most common interaction with nature. Continuing as our most widespread human interaction within nature, agriculture’s role in creating civilization, and later its writing, eventually led to an urban separation from nature including food production. Unifying the philosophy, agriculture and agricultural science across cultures and traditions from pre-agricultural times through the European Enlightenment to today, this work builds on neglected ancient insights. Perhaps the most profound of these insights is that our thoughts and actions may be seen as an integral part of nature. Rather than being independent agents with free will, our fears and guilt may be seen as active forces in the dynamics of nature itself, which includes our procurement of food. This conception offers a wider interaction than can be comprehended from current popular approaches.

Author : Andreas Zeman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110765052

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The Winds of History by Andreas Zeman Pdf

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004520745

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Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics by Tom Brass Pdf

Examined here is political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, extending from historical and contemporary views about race, culture, and labour regimes, to how the same themes inform travel writing.

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004337091

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Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies by Tom Brass Pdf

Debates about labour markets and the identity of those who, in an economic sense, circulate within them, together with the controversies such issues generate, have in the past been confined by development studies to the Third World. Now these same concerns have shifted, as the study of development has turned its attention to how these same phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist nations. For this reason, the book does not restrict the analysis of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity to Third World contexts. The reviews, review essays and essays collected here also examine similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism, together with their political and ideological effects and implications.

Author : Mark Tilzey,Fraser Sugden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000962581

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Peasants, Capitalism, and Imperialism in an Age of Politico-Ecological Crisis by Mark Tilzey,Fraser Sugden Pdf

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South. In this companion volume to Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf, the authors further develop their thinking on agrarian transitions to capitalism, the development of imperialism, and the place of the peasantry in these dynamics, with special reference to the global South in an era of politico-ecological crisis. Focusing on the political role of the peasantry in contested transitions to capitalism and to modes of production outside of, and beyond, capitalism, the book contends that an understanding of these dynamics requires an analysis of class struggle and of the resources, material and discursive, that different classes can bring to bear on this struggle. The book focuses on the rise of capitalism in the global South within the context of imperial subordination to the global North, and the place of the peasantry in shaping and resisting these dynamics. The book presents case studies of contested transitions to agrarian capitalism in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and South Asia. It also examines the case of transition to a post-capitalist mode of production in Cuba. The book concludes with an assessment of the nature of capitalism and imperialism within the context of the contemporary politico-ecological crisis, and the potential role of the peasantry as agent of emancipatory change towards social and environmental sustainability. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies, rural politics, agrarian studies, development, and political ecology.

Author : Gerardo Otero
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477316993

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The Neoliberal Diet by Gerardo Otero Pdf

This “remarkable, comprehensive” study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic “is critical reading for food studies scholars” (Contemporary Sociology). Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness multinationals to thrive by selling a combination of meat and highly processed foods loaded with refined flour and sugars—a diet that originated in the United States. Drawing on extensive empirical data, Gerardo Otero identifies the socioeconomic and political forces that created this diet, which has been exported around the globe at the expense of people’s health. Otero shows how state-level actions, particularly subsidies for big farms and agribusiness, have ensured the dominance of processed foods and made fresh foods inaccessible to many. Comparing agrifood performance across several nations, including the NAFTA region, and correlating food access to class inequality, he convincingly demonstrates the structural character of food production and the effect of inequality on individual food choices. Resolving the global obesity crisis, Otero concludes, lies not in blaming individuals but in creating state-level programs to reduce inequality and make healthier food accessible to all.

Author : Randy Laist
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476639727

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Excavating Indiana Jones by Randy Laist Pdf

With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones--archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe--has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the big screen. Since his debut in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has gone on to anchor several sequels, and a fifth film is currently in development. At the same time, the character has spilled out into multiple multimedia manifestations and has become a familiar icon within the collective cultural imagination. Despite the longevity and popularity of the Indiana Jones franchise, however, it has rarely been the focus of sustained criticism. In Excavating Indiana Jones, a collection of international scholars analyzes Indiana Jones tales from a variety of perspectives, examining the films' representation of history, cultural politics, and identity, and also tracing the adaptation of the franchise into comic books, video games, and theme park attractions.

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004384040

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Revolution and Its Alternatives by Tom Brass Pdf

Support for a radical politics and its form of political mobilization exists, but in the absence of a revolutionary leftist project, this support has in the past, and is currently, been transferred to the counter-revolutionary politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum.

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004445789

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Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism by Tom Brass Pdf

The book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, together with the danger of not doing so.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004504790

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Marx Matters by Anonim Pdf

In Marx Matters noted scholars explore the way a Marxian political economy addresses contemporary social problems, demonstrating the relevance of Marx today and outlining how his work can frame progressive programs for social change.