- Title
- Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Creator
- Helliker, Kirk D
- Date Issued
- 2005
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- review essay
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61017
- Identifier
- vital:27913
- Identifier
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/asr.v9i2.23268
- Description
- In the early 1990s, Rehman Sobhan (1993) argued that after two decades in which agrarian reform was a global non-event, ‘[vjotaries of agrarian reform’ had been reduced to ‘a fringe group of romantic throwbacks left over from the 1950s and 1960s’ (1993: p.3) He offered a broad overview of post-Second World War experiences in Asia, Latin America and Africa, and distinguished between radical and non-egalitarian reforms in terms of their effect on eliminating class differentiation and modes of domination in the countryside. He concluded by arguing that ‘ [t]he political mobilization needed to realize radical reforms in the contemporary developing world remains elusive’’ (1993: p.133, my emphasis). Nearly ten years later, Deborah Bryceson (2000), after discussing the post-Second World War academic literature on the peasantry, suggested that '[pleasant theory is on the retreat’ (2000: p.29); that it was critical to bring peasants ‘back into theoretical and policy debates’ (2000: p.30); and that the ongoing reproduction of the peasantry in Latin America, Asia and Africa through contradictory processes of formation and dissolution seemed to give them an ‘enduringpresence’ (2000: p.6). She concluded also by referring to an elusiveness, speaking about the multifaceted survival strategies of the peasantry under conditions of global neo-liberalism that make the peasantry - conceptually - ‘more elusive than before’ (2000: p.30, my emphasis). These brief comments on the status of the peasantry and agrarian reform provide an important historical and theoretical backdrop to the volume under review.
- Format
- 30 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
- Relation
- Moyo, S. and Yeros, P. eds., 2005. Reclaiming the land: The resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Zed Books.
- Relation
- African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie 9 vol. 2 no. 207 236 2005 1027-4332
- Rights
- African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African Journals Online (AJOL) Open Access Policy
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