《Journal of Peasant Studies》2022年第49卷第3期目录及摘要
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Articles
The role of custom farming in agribusiness expansion in Argentina
Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom
Lola Loustaunau, Mauricio Betancourt, Brett Clark & John Bellamy Foster
The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India
Jostein Jakobsen & Ola T. Westengen
Heroes of the developing world? Emerging powers in WTO agriculture negotiations and dispute settlement
Kristen Hopewell
The abolition of agricultural taxes and the transformation of clientelism in the countryside of post-Mao China
Jingping Liu
Navigating the spaces between human rights and justice: cultivating Indigenous representation in global environmental governance
Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya, Laura Zanotti & Kate Haapala
Do women like to farm? Evidence of growing burdens of farming on women in rural India
Itishree Pattnaik & Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Global labor value chains, commodification, and the socioecological structure of severe exploitation. A case study of the Thai seafood sector
Timothy P. Clark & Stefano B. Longo
Book Reviews
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of Rural Land Market
by Julia Chuang, Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 256 pp. £66 (hb); £24 (pb). ISBN: 9780520305441 (hb); 9780520305458 (pb)
René Trappel
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.2023954
State of disorder: privatised violence and the state in Indonesia
by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, Singapore: Palgrave, 2021, xvii + 276 pp., €85.59 (eBook), €124.99 (Hardcover), ISBN 978-981-16-3663-9 (eBook), ISBN 978-981-16-3662-2 (Hardcover)
Christian Lund
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2038348
The role of custom farming in agribusiness expansion in Argentina
Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti
Abstract：This article aims to examine the role of custom farming in the expansion of the agribusiness model in Argentina, and more specifically, of machinery contractors incorporated into productive ‘networks’ led by large-scale sowing pools and companies. It treats dispossession as being in a dialectic relationship to productivity, thus posing the question of labour as a core discussion in this process. Its purpose is to provide an insight into agribusiness that, while remaining critical, can be constructive for discussing the development implications of this model in the public arena.
Chinese contract labor, the corporeal rift, and ecological imperialism in Peru’s nineteenth-century guano boom
Lola Loustaunau Mauricio Betancourt Brett Clark John Bellamy Foster
Abstract：Building on the theory of ecological imperialism in the context of the Peruvian guano boom, this analysis explores the metabolic rift in the human relation to external nature and the corresponding corporeal rift in the destruction of human bodily existence. Guano capitalists robbed Peru of the manure deposited by seabirds, while British imperialism introduced a system of racialized expropriation (the ‘coolie trade'), referred to by Karl Marx as ‘worse than slavery.’ Previous failures to understand this historical tragedy were due to the legal forms adopted, which categorized as semi-free labor what was in fact the social murder of the workers.
The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India
Jostein Jakobsen Ola T. Westengen
Abstract：The ‘grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are ‘political crops’ intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled resilience, but also facilitated state and capital entanglement in the global agro-food system. This imperial maize assemblage is set on expansion, but it will continue to meet resistance in coevolved peasant-maize alliances.
Heroes of the developing world? Emerging powers in WTO agriculture negotiations and dispute settlement
Kristen Hopewell
Abstract：Agriculture has been a key issue of North-South struggle at the WTO. Emerging powers like China, India and Brazil have portrayed themselves as leaders of the Global South, crusading to make the trading system fairer for developing countries. This article analyzes three cases – the cotton dispute, subsidies and public stockholding – that have been at the center of WTO negotiations and dispute settlement on agriculture since the collapse of the Doha Round. While presenting themselves as champions of the developing world, I show that the emerging powers have been advancing their own interests, often at the expense of other developing countries..
The abolition of agricultural taxes and the transformation of clientelism in the countryside of post-Mao China
Jingping Liu
Abstract：A substantial body of research has revealed the historical transformation of clientelism in the countryside of capitalist societies. Although rural China has distinct politico-economic structures, I argue that the framework of clientelist transformation also fits it. I identify the abolition of agricultural taxes as a watershed moment in facilitating the transformation. This national policy marked a dramatic change in state-peasant relations from state extraction based on taxes to state provision of economic subsidies, state extraction through land expropriation, and market extraction through wage labor and contract farming. In the former relation, clientelism based on the ethics of egalitarian distribution and subsistence security protected peasants from excessive extraction. In the latter, clientelism based on external linkages is instrumental for peasants to access state and market resources. The new clientelism widens the economic inequality and facilitates class conflicts within villages; it also opens villages up to more state and market extraction.
Navigating the spaces between human rights and justice: cultivating Indigenous representation in global environmental governance
Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya Laura Zanotti Kate Haapala
Abstract：How and in what ways do ‘marginalized' actors influence global environmental governance? Through a collaborative event ethnography of the Paris Climate Summit (COP21), we examine power as it emerges through interactions between actors, institutions, and spaces, focusing on Indigenous Peoples’ engagement at the international treaty negotiations. The findings show how Indigenous Peoples generate new meanings and avenues for their pursuits of justice by contesting the production of various forms of rights. In doing so, Indigenous delegates situate power through the politics of representation, carving out distinct political roles in international arenas.
Do women like to farm? Evidence of growing burdens of farming on women in rural India
Itishree Pattnaik Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Abstract：Drawing on the findings of an extensive questionnaire-based survey conducted in two Indian states of West Bengal and Gujarat, this paper investigates whether the concentration of women's labour contributions to agriculture has improved their autonomy in decision-making. It shows that women's labour burdens have increased without associated benefits, and raises the question of the invisibility of the ‘preparatory work' that women do on and off the farm to support agriculture. The findings lead to the conclusion that for farming in India to thrive and ensure fulfilling lives for women farmers, the policymakers need to address rural women’s discontent.
Global labor value chains, commodification, and the socioecological structure of severe exploitation. A case study of the Thai seafood sector
Timothy P. Clark Stefano B. Longo
Abstract：We utilize perspectives in environmental sociology and political economy to examine relationships between human exploitation and ecological degradation. Specifically, we apply global labor value chains and the tragedy of the commodity to analyze severe labor exploitation in Thai capture fisheries. Our analysis suggests that severe labor exploitation has played a significant role in lowering the market value of the Thai seafood sector as an adaptation to a competitive marketplace driven by increasing commodification and a stressed marine ecosystem. Regarding ecologies, we detail how the degradation of marine ecosystems in the region stimulated increased demand for severe labor exploitation.
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