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The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle
Resistance, Rights and Democracy
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2016
Summary
New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North. But peasants are fighting back. They have come together to contest dispossession through place-based and transnational forms of activism. In so doing, they have articulated a demand for food sovereignty. They claim that a democratically organized food system in which smallholder producers produce their own food on their own territory can feed the world whilst cooling the planet.
This book explores practices of peasant resistance. Its aim is to show how grass roots peasant activists have been able to demand transnational social and political change. In the process, the book examines the grassroots forms of activism that enable peasants to reclaim land upon which to work and from which to live. It explores how diverse grass roots movements have been able to connect and unite in order to contest transnational dynamics of oppression. Moreover, it discusses how practices of peasant activism transform how we think, and ought to think, about human rights and global democracy. By also highlighting the problems that peasants continue to face, the book indicates that the future of sustainable peasant livelihoods depends on the will of global organizations and transnational society to not just listen to the voices of peasant activists, but to respond to them too.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-78348-781-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-78348-782-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
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Acknowledgements No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two: Peasant Dispossession and the Emergence of the Agro-Industrial Food Regime No access Pages 13 - 42
Chapter Three: Peasant Resistance No access Pages 43 - 76
Chapter Four: Human Rights: Domination and Emancipation No access Pages 77 - 110
Chapter Five: How Ideas Travel: Rights to Land, Rights to Food and Food Sovereignty No access Pages 111 - 140
Chapter Six: Peasant Resistance and Global Democracy No access Pages 141 - 170
