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This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to
celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam
Moyo to the social sciences. The late Prof. Moyo was a Zimbabwean
scholar whose intellectual trajectory was part and parcel of the
emergence of a critical scholarship from the 1970s onward based in
the realities and traditions of Africa and the Third World. His
work influenced the global research agenda on diverse issues
related to Africa and the South, and especially from the 2000s when
he actively defended the importance of research on land and
agrarian questions at a time when such issues were being dismissed
as passe. He went on to become a leading force in the creation of a
South-South dynamic in research collaboration, in defense of the
intellectual autonomy and epistemic sovereignty of the South.
This book compares the trajectories of states and societies in
Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism, a time marked
by serial economic crises, escalating social conflicts, the
re-militarisation of North-South relations and the radicalization
of social and nationalist forces. Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros bring
together researchers and activists from the three continents to
assess the state of national sovereignty and the challenges faced
by popular movements today. They show that global integration has
widened social and regional inequalities within countries,
exacerbated ethnic, caste, and racial conflicts, and generally
reduced the bureaucratic capacities of states to intervene in a
defensive way. Moreover, inequalities between the countries of the
South have also widened. These structural tensions have all
contributed to several distinct political trajectories among
states: from fracture and foreign occupation, to radicalization and
uncertain re-stabilization. This book re-draws the debate on the
political economy of the contemporary South and provides students
of international studies with an important collection of readings.
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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