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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Information manipulation and historical revisionism: Russian disinformation and foreign interference through manipulated history-based narratives. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2023
Arribas CM, Arcos R, Gértrudix M, Mikulski K, Hernández-Escayola P, Teodor M, Novăcescu E, Surdu I, Stoian V, García-Jiménez A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Authorial and Responsive Discretion: Evaluative Authority and the Reorganization of Dependency

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dependency has long structured agrarian political economy, explaining how producers are embedded in markets, capital circuits and regulatory regimes. This paper argues that dependency remains indispensable yet analytically incomplete without attention to evaluative authority.
Michael Carolan
wiley   +1 more source

Promotion of Wild Food Plant Use Diversity in the Soviet Union, 1922-1991. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2022
Bexultanova G, Prakofjewa J, Sartori M, Kalle R, Pieroni A, Sõukand R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Bolsheviks Come to Power The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Book Review)

, 2017
The book includes List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Note on Transliteration, Dates and Terminology, Preface to the Centenary Edition, Introduction, Sixteen Chapters, Notes, Selected Bibliography and Index.
Pamir Dietrich, Ayşe
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

Fania (Fanny) Kaplan and the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin: Ophthalmologic considerations. [PDF]

Acta Ophthalmol
Schwartz SG, Leffler CT, Allen PM, Grzybowski A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

On Common Ground: Soviet Nationalities Policy and the Austro-Marxist Premise. [PDF]

Eur Asia Stud
Battis M.
europepmc   +1 more source