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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/633; 322.4
• Soggetto topico: Peasants; Transnationalism; Solidarity; Culture and globalization; Plant biotechnology - Political aspects; Land reform
• Altri autori: BorrasSaturnino M EdelmanMarc KayCristobal
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization
• ISBN: 1-282-03016-7; 9786612030161; 1-4443-0719-3; 1-4443-0720-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146115203321
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