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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

PEASANTRY AND POWER: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RELATIONSHIP DURING NEP

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
This article discusses the basic principles, nature and characteristics of the relationship of the peasantry and the Soviets. Based on the analysis of concrete historical material, it is concluded that the system of local authorities did not provide an ...
N. N. Grehova
doaj   +2 more sources

Peasant revolts against the peasant revolution

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Тhe peasant revolts, wars, and revolutions known in history had both revolutionary and reactionary sides. A particularly complex interweaving was observed in Russia (USSR) in the first third of the 20th century due to the maximum number of economic ...
V. F. Isaychikov
doaj   +1 more source

Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
core   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entre similitudes y contrastes. Modos y estrategias de abordaje del campesinado en las perspectivas de Jan Douve Van der Ploeg, Alexander Chayanov y Huges Lamarche [PDF]

open access: yesRevista IDEAS, 2012
This paper we present an analysis evidencing contrasts and similarities between the theoretical and methodological approaches of the authors Alexander Chayanov, Huges Lamarche and Jan Van der Ploeg Douve, whose main concerns lie in understanding the ...
Laura Kostlin   +1 more
doaj  

THE «SIBIRSKOE UCHREZHDENIE» SET OF LAWS OF MUTUAL RELATIONS BETWEEN LOCAL STATE BODIES OF SIBERIAN MANAGEMENT AND PEASANTRY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN 1822 – 1898

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2016
The article deals with the problems of mutual relations between Siberian local state bodies system and public peasantry authorities’ places. In the a set of laws called «Sibirskoe Uchrezhdenie» the supreme authorities set up methods and forms of work ...
Ye. A. Syemshchikov
doaj   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Heritage and Patrimony of the Peasantry: an analytical framework to address rural development

open access: yesAgronomía Colombiana, 2019
The term “rural development” is exceptionally multifaceted, which makes it difficult to define. This and other features make it a ‘wicked problem’, which means the consequences of rural developmental problems can create other complications. To date, the
Fabio Pachón-Ariza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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