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When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a ne

This book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agrarian markets and food industries. It

"The author argues that the experience of rural activism in Costa Rica in the 1980s and 1990s calls into question much current theory about collective action, p

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political e

The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and