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Capitalism and Agrarian Change - Class, Production and Reproduction in Indonesia (Hardcover)
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Capitalism and Agrarian Change - Class, Production and Reproduction in Indonesia (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are
often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class ('the
peasantry') to be pitted against the state or corporation. This
book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that
under current capitalist social relations (competition, efficiency
and productivity, and profit maximisation), these agricultural
producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes
by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local
agrarian change in Indonesia-rice cultivation in Java and oil palm
in Sumatra-this book exposes the different class locations of the
agrarian classes among petty agricultural producers and the class
relations between them. These are often inextricably linked to
gender, clanship and generational issues. The power of class
dynamics crucially shapes how agricultural production in both rice
and oil palm is organised. The share received by different agrarian
classes from the production site then prominently shapes the
different nature of class reproduction for each agrarian class.
This analysis demonstrates that the different agrarian classes
possess different capacities and responses in their relation to the
state or corporations. Any real emancipation attempt in the
Indonesian countryside (and beyond) must start from a proper
understanding of these class dynamics. This book marks a
significant contribution to the literature on agrarian change, the
political economy of development, rural development and Marxist
political economy.
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