Is There an Agrarian Question in the 21st Century?

By H. Bernstein. 2006

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh's coastal landscape (2014, background): “…the distinction between absolute depeasantization (through which rural dwellers are forced to leave rural communities entirely), and transitions of production relations within rural communities, which may nevertheless be classified as ‘proletarianization’ (Harriss 1987; Bernstein 2004, 2006).”
• Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below in China (2015, background): “The existence of family farming neither negates nor serves as an alternative to agrarian capitalism, as agrarian capitalism ‘is not synonymous with, nor reducible to, farming’ (Bernstein 2006, 454).”
• Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (2009, background): “Peasants are best understood as petty commodity producers subject to processes of class differentiation: some succeed in becoming small rural capitalist farmers, some are able to reproduce themselves as small farmers, but others have to engage in wage labour or other forms of activity, such as micro”
• Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty (2010, unknown): “…and, to many, unexpected survival of ‘peasants’ in the global South and of ‘family farmers’ in the global North has engendered complex debates regarding the analytical and political utility of various forms of agrarian theory and class analysis (Bernstein 2007; McMichael 2008; van der Ploeg 2008).”