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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146115203321

Titolo

Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization / / edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

ISBN

9786612030161

9781282030169

1282030167

9781444307191

1444307193

9781444307207

1444307207

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BorrasSaturnino M

EdelmanMarc

KayCristobal

Disciplina

305.5/633

322.4

Soggetti

Peasants

Transnationalism

Solidarity

Culture and globalization

Plant biotechnology - Political aspects

Land reform

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics,Campaigns and Impact; 2 Peasants Make Their Own History,But Not Just as They Please ...; 3 Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: Histories,Challenges,Prospects; 4 La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform; 5 'Late Mobilization ':Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa; 6 Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India,South Africa and Brazil



7 Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America:Democratization,Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization8 Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia; 9 Whose Rules Rule?Contested Projects to Certify 'Local Production for Distant Consumers '; 10 Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico; 11 From Covert to Overt:Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements; 12 Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 communitiesLittle-known transnational agrar