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Reclaiming the Land - The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Paperback)
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Reclaiming the Land - The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Paperback)
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Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most
important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil
and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of
diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis
of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land
occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state.
This volume brings together for the first time across three
continents - Africa, Latin America and Asia - an intellectually
consistent set of original investigations into this new generation
of rural social movements. These country studies seek to identify
their social composition, strategies, tactics, and ideologies; to
assess their relations with other social actors, including
political parties, urban social movements, and international aid
agencies and other institutions; and to examine their most common
tactic, the land occupation, its origins, pace and patterns, as
well as the responses of governments and landowners. At a more
fundamental level, this volume explores the ways in which two
decades of neoliberal policy - including new land tenure
arrangements intended to hasten the commodification of land, and
new land uses linked to global markets -- have undermined the
social reproduction of the rural labour force and created the
conditions for popular resistance. The volume demonstrates the
longer-term potential impact of these movements. In economic terms,
they raise the possibility of tackling immiseration by means of the
redistribution of land and the reorganisation of production on a
more efficient and socially responsible basis. And in political
terms, breaking the power of landowners and transnational capital
with interests in land could ultimately open the way to an
alternative pattern of capital accumulation and development.
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