Tag: Agrarian

Free Download Ruben Gowricharn, "The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname: Agrarian and Economic Transformations in a Plantation Society"
English | ISBN: 3031679601 | 2024 | 310 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 19 MB
This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers.

Free Download African Agrarian Philosophy by Mbih Jerome Tosam, Erasmus Masitera
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 417 Pages | ISBN : 3031430395 | 7.4 MB
This book critically explores indigenous sub-Saharan African agrarian thought. Indigenous African agrarian philosophy is an uncharted and largely overlooked area of study in the burgeoning fields of African philosophy and philosophy of nature. The book shows that wherever human beings have lived, they have been preoccupied with exploring ways to ensure the sustainable management of limited resources at their disposal, to attain to their basic needs: food, shelter, and security. The book also shows that agriculture and the way people relate with nature are an essential, but generally neglected, determinant of the emergence and orientation of all philosophical traditions. In traditional, pre-colonial African culture, it was difficult to separate agriculture from African relational ontology. Agriculture and the use of natural resources were at the centre of community life and influenced the social, political, economic, and spiritual worldviews of the people. In their contact with nature through agriculture, different beliefs, knowledge systems, norms, moral outlooks, cultural practices and institutions emerged and have been valorized to guide societies on how to sustainably manage the environment. As a way of life, then, agriculture was deeply connected with indigenous beliefs, values, and practices which transcended a wide range of issues related to ecological ethics, food ethics, religion, traditional medicine, political economy, social organisation, biological reproduction and species survival, indigenous knowledge, and property rights. This book will thus be a valuable resource for policy makers and researchers in diverse fields such as philosophy, geography, sociology, anthropology, and development studies.

Free Download Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform By Enrique Mayer
2010 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 082234453X | PDF | 5 MB
"Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform" reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic programme of land expropriation. Seized land was turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members organized to dismantle them and distribute the land among themselves. In 1995-96, as the agrarian reform process was winding down and neoliberal policies were undoing leftist reforms, the Peruvian anthropologist Enrique Mayer travelled throughout the country, interviewing people who had lived through the most tumultuous years of agrarian reform, recording their memories and their stories. While agrarian reform caused enormous upheaval, controversy, and disappointment, it did succeed in breaking up the unjust and oppressive hacienda system. Mayer contends that the demise of that system is comparable in importance to the liberation of slaves in the Americas. Mayer interviewed ex-landlords, land expropriators, politicians, government bureaucrats, intellectuals, peasant leaders, activists, ranchers, members of farming families, and others. Weaving their impassioned recollections in with his own commentary, he offers a series of dramatic narratives, each one centred around a specific instance of land expropriation, collective enterprise, and disillusion. Although the reform began with high hopes, it was quickly complicated by difficulties including corruption, rural and urban unrest, fights over land tenure and expropriation, delays in modernization, and explosive population growth. As he provides insight into how important historical events are remembered, Mayer re-evaluates Peru’s military government (1969-79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life.

Free Download Norman Wirzba, "Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land"
English | ISBN: 0268203091 | 2022 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Joana Salm Vasconcelos, "Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism "
English | ISBN: 9004538291 | 2023 | 356 pages | PDF | 22 MB
In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America’s underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution.

Free Download Julie Guthman, "Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California"
English | 2004 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0520240952 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to "industrial" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose.