Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p The survival and persistence of peasantries in a globalizing and ever more commodified world has been puzzling social scientists for a long time now. Time and again, the demise of the peasant was announced by intellectuals, capitalists, reformers and development planners alike. That is why the very notion of peasants and peasantries confronts us with the flaws of traditional/mainstream economic development theories. Understanding old and new ‘agrarian questions’ requires new historical knowledge about the role of peasantries within long-term economic and social transformations. This essay explores the concept of peasantries in the past, present and future world. It interrogates peasants as a social category, peasantry as a social process and the processes of de- en re-peasantization as an outcome of an ever more intrusive world-system.. }
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- aggregation abstract "The survival and persistence of peasantries in a globalizing and ever more commodified world has been puzzling social scientists for a long time now. Time and again, the demise of the peasant was announced by intellectuals, capitalists, reformers and development planners alike. That is why the very notion of peasants and peasantries confronts us with the flaws of traditional/mainstream economic development theories. Understanding old and new ‘agrarian questions’ requires new historical knowledge about the role of peasantries within long-term economic and social transformations. This essay explores the concept of peasantries in the past, present and future world. It interrogates peasants as a social category, peasantry as a social process and the processes of de- en re-peasantization as an outcome of an ever more intrusive world-system.".