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Throughout history, societies have had to decide whom to
"sacrifice" and whom to help in times of disaster. This volume
examines how elite groups attempt to maintain power through the use
of particular economic, political, and ideological instruments and
how both ruling elites and common people endeavor to create
meaningful traditions while enduring hardship.The Political Economy
of Hazards and Disasters demonstrates how vulnerability is
economically constructed, primary producers adapt their production
regimes, how traders and merchants adapt their practices, and how
political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts.
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents
examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is
necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support
holistic community-based development in peasant communities.
Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts,
the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting
collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and
inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative
organizations can support grassroots development strategies while
negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context
of international markets and global competition. The contributors
explain the key desirable goals from cooperative efforts among
smallholder producers. They are to provide access to more secure
livelihoods, expand control over basic resources and commodity
chains, improve quality of life in rural areas, support community
infrastructure, and offer social spaces wherein small farmers can
engage politically in transforming their own communities. The
stories in Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
reveal immense opportunities and challenges. Although cooperatives
have often been framed as alternatives to the global capitalist
system, they are neither a panacea nor the hegemonic extension of
neoliberal capitalism. Through one of the most thorough
cross-country comparisons of cooperatives to date, this volume
shows the unfiltered reality of cooperative development in highly
stratified societies, with case studies selected specifically
because they offer important lessons regarding struggles and
strategies for adapting to a changing social, economic, and natural
environment.
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