Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please ...

Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-60

  McMichael, Philip ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

'spatial distinction' of transnational peasant movement; Agrarian question of food; Coordination Paysannen Europ ene (CPE); Food sovereignty movement neoliberal project of installing a 'self regulating market' on world scale; Micro politics articulating with macro politics ability of members to recognize and connect particular conditions and political projects; Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please...; Situating transnational peasant movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890772580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307191.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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