‘Changing Before Our Very Eyes’: Agrarian Questions and the Politics of Land in Capitalism Today

By H. Bernstein. 2004

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. H. Bernstein
3. I. Scoones
4. B. Cousins
5. B. White
6. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
7. T. Li
8. P. McMichael

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Peters
2. H. Bernstein
3. B. Cousins
4. T. Li
5. B. White
6. I. Scoones
7. J. Cons
8. K. Paprocki

In Soil Science

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. B. Cousins
4. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
5. B. White
6. T. Li
7. P. McMichael
8. K. Amanor

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).”
• Anything but a story foretold: multiple politics of resistance to the agrarian extractivist project in Guatemala (2015, background): “…and further developed by Engels (1951[1894]), Kautsky (1988[1899]) and Lenin (1964[1899]), and, particularly, the later discussion by Byres (1991, 1996) and Bernstein (2004, 2006) about the need revisit the classic agrarian question(s) in the socially diverse contexts of the South today.”
• Is There an Agrarian Question in the 21st Century? (2006, background): “As I have tried to argue in the case of Zimbabwe (Bernstein 2004,210-220).”
• Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa (2009, background): “…is destroyed. . . . there remains no rationale for redistributive land reform. . . . any notion of redistributive land reform that advocates the division of larger, more productive enterprises (capitalist and/or rich peasant farms) is ipso facto both reactionary and utopian’9 (Bernstein 2004, 199).”
• Peasant prospects in the neoliberal age (2006, background): “In the latter view, this path remains unresolved, which, in the neoliberal era Henry Bernstein characterises as the ‘agrarian question of labour’.(15) While peasants have always reproduced within broader social relations, Bernstein derives this new agrarian question from a key contradiction of globa”
• Exit from agriculture: a step forward or a step backward for the rural poor? (2009, background): “The central agrarian question today, as Henry Bernstein (2004) argues, is the question of labour.”
• To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations (2010, background): “Henry Bernstein (2004:204-5) describes the failure of the generalized capitalist system to provide a living wage to the dispossessed as the central agrarian question of our times. Cautioning against apocalyptic images of disposable humanity, Michael Watts (2009:283) argues for a “nuanced and place-s”
• Resistance strategies and diversification of rural livelihoods: the construction of autonomy among Brazilian family farmers (2010, background): “…time, it is increasingly evident that the contemporary agrarian question is not restricted to the traditional class relations of classical agrarian issues – not even to ‘fragmented classes’, according to the ‘agrarian labour question’, in the redefinition of this discussion by Bernstein (2004).”
• Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming (2012, background): “The problems generating mass youth unemployment are structural ones, as every takeover of smaller by larger enterprises, and every investment in new technologies tends to destroy jobs and expel people rather than creating jobs and absorbing them (Bernstein 2004; Li 2009, 2010); this is happening in ”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…forms of agrarian transition … expel people from agriculture without absorbing their labour in manufactures or elsewhere in the economy’, thus making them surplus ‘to capital’s requirements for labour’ (2012, 624–625; cf. Bernstein 2004, Li 2009, 2010, Tanner 2010, O’Laughlin et al. 2013).”
• Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder: two West African case studies (2012, background): “At the core of these debates are controversies about the relative efficiency of large-scale and smallholder agriculture (Bernstein 2004 ).”