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Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization, Paperback / softback Book

Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization Paperback / softback

Edited by Saturnino M., Jr. (St Mary's University, Canada) Borras, Marc (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA) Edelman, Cristobal (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands) Kay

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Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions. Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in desperation, return from abroad to transform their communitiesLittle-known transnational agrarian movements of the early twentieth century share the stage with more recent, high-profile global alliances, such as Via CampesinaCelebrates a dynamic sector of international civil society, and tackles the thorny questions of successes and failures, ethical and political dilemmas, troubled alliances with NGOs, protest repertoires, and representation claimsAnalyzes contemporary collective action in all its complexity, acknowledging ambiguities and contradictions, posing challenging questions, and providing concrete strategies for scholars and activists

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