UID:
kobvindex_GFZ836333195
Format:
XII, 266 Seiten
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Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
1138916390
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9781138916395
Series Statement:
Global agrarian transformation 1
Content:
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
Note:
Enth. 10 Beitr.
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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'
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/836333195.pdf