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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"Peasant"”.
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… Disillusioned by my stories of survival, the “Peasant Roots” chapter returns to my ancestral past and explores the life of my Bosniak (Muslim Bosnian) peasant grandparents through knowledges, values, and practices of subsistence farming and self-sustainability; local gift, barter and exchange …
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Peasant and capitalist agriculture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1968. Ph.D.
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Economic analysis of peasant family farms: Agricultural intensification, cost-accounting, and sharecropping in Andean peasant communities
… in demand for agricultural products. Even though peasant family farms comprise as much as seventy percent of the population in many developing countries, there is still no serious attempt to uncover peasant responses to their growing integration into the national economy at the micro level of …
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Peasant Politicization: Compliance and Activism in Rural China
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317396.pdf: 20864788 bytes, checksum: bf126e3ce95e067ca23f819d106d2319 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Picturing the peasant : nation and modernity in 20th century Bulgaria
… examines representations of the Bulgarian peasant in order to explore how nationalist, agrarian and ultimately communist governments attempted to negotiate the meaning of "modernity" in predominantly rural Bulgaria. This work is not intended as a survey of displays of folk culture in the …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
This thesis is a study of the politics of the big peasant class in Ghana and Papua New Guinea . The big peasants emerged from pre-existent rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
This thesis is a study of the politics of the big peasant class in Ghana and Papua New Guinea . The big peasants emerged from pre-existent rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . …
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Peasant production and capitalist development: a model with reference to Bangladesh.
… the paradigm of capitalist development contrasts peasant and capitalist production in terms of (i) the market-mediation of production and (ii) the relations of production and forms of exploitation. The structure of causation underlying the capitalist transformation of peasant production has been …
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Leadership and change : a study of two South African peasant communities
The fieldwork this thesis was carried out between the 8th December, 1962 and the 28th February, 1963 - an unusually short period by modern anthropological standards. The brevity of my intensive field being Xhosa-speaking, I had a previous knowledge of the two villages. As a small boy, I grew up in …
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Agricultural development and peasant behavior in China during the cultural revolution
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The origins of the peasant agitation in Oudh : the awakening of the peasants?
This thesis is an examination of the origins of peasant discontent and agitation in Oudh between 1917-22. The nature of the peasant cultivator situation under British rule, and the unofficial but pervasive system of exactions, both perennial and incidental, by the landlord are detailed. The origins …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
This thesis explores male peasant workers’ identity formation in contemporary post-Mao China. It is a qualitative study of 28 male peasant workers. Adopting an interpretivist perspective, this thesis uses a multi-method approach, including life histories, ethnography and discourse analysis. A …
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Bureaucratic intervention and the development of peasant agriculture : the case of ALDEP in Botswana
… the redistribution of economic resources to the peasant sector.This study eschews instrumentalist, a priori and reductionist approaches which tend to see the state, including the bureaucracy, as synonymous with, and therefore as solely pursuing the interests of, the economically dominant class. …
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Specialized households : an analysis of the impacts of agrarian change on Chinese peasant women
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Collective Action and Civilian Agency in Conflict: Peasant Strategies for Peacebuilding in Rural Colombia
… uses a mixed-methods approach to examine how peasant associations and agricultural cooperatives contribute to violence prevention and peacebuilding in Colombia's conflict-affected rural areas. Grounded in the agrarian question, it combines municipal-level data analysis with testimonies and a …
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The Confederation Paysanne as 'peasant' Movement: Re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests
… paysanne (CP) - which literally stands for 'peasant confederation' - has been presented in academic and activist circles as a key player in the struggle against neoliberal globalisation, and as a contributor to the emergence of new transnational activist networks and a 'global civil society'. …
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