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The End of Peasantries? Rethinking the Role of Peasantries in a World-Historical View

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Vanhaute, Eric
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This tentative essay tries to understand today's concerns about the decay of the peasantries and the loss of food security on a massive scale within a long-term and global perspective. Guiding questions are: How to handle the local scale of the peasant with the global scale of societal transformations? How to define peasantries? How is the fate of peasantries linked to economic development and social inequality? What can new research on the success and decline of peasantries learn us? Understanding the old and new 'agrarian questions' calls for new historical knowledge of the role of peasantries within capitalist transformations. The existing knowledge is all to often deformed by a twofold myopia, the English Road to capitalist agriculture, and the European Experience of the dissolution of the peasantries within the industrial and post-industrial economies. Laying down the old premisses of westernized development reveals a different picture of a highly productive family based agriculture, promoting local and regional income and survival systems, and internalizing costs of production and reproduction, contrary to the dominant and ultimatelly dead end tendency within historical capitalism.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 13291.

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Date of creation: 2008
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Publication status: Published in Review Fernand Braudal Center 1.31(2008): pp. 39-59
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Keywords: Peasantries; depeasantization;

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