REFRAMING DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL PEASANT MOVEMENTS AND THE NEW AGRARIAN QUESTION

Philip Mcmichael

doi:10.47946/rnera.v0i10.1423

Abstract

This paper criticizes the conventional conception of the agrarian question and argues that the way the “agrarian question” is traditionally understood should be revised. The role played by the agrarian movement, especially transnational agrarian movements such as the Vía Campesina, is underscored.

Highlights

Neste artigo a concepção clássica de questão agrária é criticada e é defendido que o modo como a “questão agrária” é concebida tradicionalmente deve ser revisto
At the dawn of developmentalism, political independence was viewed as a precondition for overcoming inequality
These interventions amount to a “political economy of representation,” focusing on counter-posing the “peasant way” to the corporate food regime, uniting distinct and autonomous struggles anchored in a “practical ethics of peasant movement solidarity” (Patel 2006, 71)

Summary

Introduction

“Development,” as currently projected by the development establishment, and articulated in the Millennium Development Goals (United Nations, 2000), has returned to “poverty reduction” as its core initiative. We might say that in the course of developmentalism, the world-historic fact of poverty appears, as Marx would say, “first time as tragedy, and second time as farce.”. We might say that in the course of developmentalism, the world-historic fact of poverty appears, as Marx would say, “first time as tragedy, and second time as farce.” In the first instance, the mid-20th-century

Revista NERA

The Poverty of Development

The Agrarian Question and Development

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