UID:
almafu_9959328751502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
ISBN:
9781444307191
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1444307193
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9781444307207
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1444307207
Content:
Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.: Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in desperation, return from abroad to transform their communities; Little-known transnational agrarian move.
Note:
Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns and impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay -- Peasants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip McMichael -- Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman -- La Vía Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform / Saturnino M. Borras Jr. -- Late mobilization : transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Newell -- Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental movements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman -- Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local production for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair -- Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada -- From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le Mons Walker -- Where there is no movement: local resistance and the potential for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 ISBN 9781405190411
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405190418
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9781444307191
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444307191
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444307191
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444307191
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