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Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9041-1
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374 pages
November 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

1. Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics, Campaigns and Impact (Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay).

2. Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please . . .  (Philip McMichael).

3. Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: Histories, Challenges, Prospects (Marc Edelman).

4. La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform (Saturnino M. Borras Jr).

5 ‘Late Mobilization’: Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa (Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford).

6. Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil (Ian Scoones).

7. Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America: Democratization, Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization (Peter Newell).

8. Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia (Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman).

9. Whose Rules Rule? Contested Projects to Certify ‘Local Production for Distant Consumers’ (Harriet Friedmann and Amber Mcnair).

10. Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico (Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada).

11. From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements (Kathy Le Mons Walker).

12. Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity (Kevin Malseed).

Index.

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