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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"agrarian change"”.
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Aspects of agrarian change in south-west Lancashire
This thesis examines agricultural and agrarian developments 1650-1850 in a region - south-west Lancashire - that was increasingly dominated by industry and large urban centres. The thesis is firmly located within two distinct historiographical traditions: 'agrarian capitalism' and 'agricultural …
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State and society: The question of agrarian change in Iraq 1921-1991
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State and society: the question of agrarian change in Iraq 1921-1991
Contains fulltext : 145583.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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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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Gender and livelihood politics in Naga City, Philippines
… of strengthening the links between feminist and agrarian change scholarship, I present ethnographic material from Naga, a medium-size city in Bicol, Philippines, to explore how daily discourses, practices and performances of livelihood change are instrumental in mapping ways of life that are …
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Wolves, Farmers, & Capitalism: A More-Than-Human Political Ecology of Human-Wolf Relations in Italy
… a more-than-human force of socioecological change, including agrarian change, shaping human-wolf relations in turn? (Q3) How may caring human-wolf relations unfold, as situated within particular political-economic contexts? These questions are investigated through four empirical chapters. …
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Limits of Liberation: Youth and Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
… this study deepens understandings of youth and agrarian change, as well as the challenges of sustaining intergenerational activism. Bringing scholarly attention to such innovative examples is important, as the future of food and farming depends on the willingness of youth to engage in …
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The socio-economic implications of conversion from commercial agriculture to private game farming: The case study of Cradock, a small town in the iNxuba Yethemba Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… who reside in the townships. By using the de-agrarianisation thesis as a theoretical framework, the study argues that the agrarian change in the form of conversion towards private game farming industry is a form of the de-agrarianisation process, not the proliferation of off-farm activities or …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… the ways different actors feel socio-ecological change. Adopting the lens of Feminist Political Ecology and drawing on the fields of historical anthropology and feminist ethics, this thesis highlights: (1) the enduring nature of epistemic injustice within agri-food relations, (2) how social …
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An assessment of multidimensional wellbeing in rural Rwanda: impacts of and implications for rural development and natural resource conservation
… difference; natural resource management; and agrarian change, and in combining a wellbeing assessment with dominant theories or concepts in each. Rwanda has received acclaim for meeting development targets despite high levels of poverty and population density. However, due to centralised, …
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The Making Of The Corporate Agri-Food System In Egypt
… These three lenses complicate critiques in agrarian and food studies that the limits to food commodification via corporate control are found in producer and/or consumer agency or reflect the country's condition of underdevelopment. This research draws on political economy, agrarian studies, …
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Gardens Are for Cash, Grain Is for Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)
… to Bamana ethnography, the study of agrarian change in rural Africa, and to literature on West African development.
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A critical analysis of theories of agricultural development and agrarian reform, with reference to agrarian reform policies in Chile (1962-1973).
… orientations to the study of capitalist agrarian development are discussed, both abstractly and with reference to their accounts of Latin American rural society in the 1960's. It is argued that all three are unable to explain adequately the process of social and agrarian change. This …
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Exploring Women Farmers' Experiences: A Case Study of Gender Inequality on Small Turkish Farms
… families; accessing resources and knowledge; agrarian change; and effect of gender on small farm practices from Turkish women farmers' standpoints. Feminist standpoint data were collected through 23 individual in-depth interviews, and five focus group sessions with women farmers in their …
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Gavelkind and the Land Market in Somerden Hundred, Kent, 1550-1700
… the impact on the Somerden area of demographic change, urbanisation, the rural economy, trade and industry, and political events. Chapter 4: Gavelkind Partition and Inheritance Practice analyses wills, settlements and deeds of partition to establish the extent to which the rules of inheritance …
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Debt as Infrastructure: Contract Farming, Labour, and Oil Palm in Montes de María
… account, I approach debt as an infrastructure of agrarian capitalism that underpins and transforms agrarian lives. In the contract farming scheme I study, the devices through which debt becomes an infrastructure are materialised in the institutional arrangements of contract farming which were …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… driven by urbanisation and industrialisation, deagrarianisation of rural society has been widely identified (Bryceson, 1996; Rigg, 2006a). As the largest developing country in the world, China embarked on market reform three decades ago and has ever since experienced dramatic socio-economic …
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