ISBN:
9780714680002
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (397 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism : The Return of the Agrarian Myth
DDC:
305.5/633/091724
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, b
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Peasants, Populism and the Agrarian Myth: The Historical Background; 1.1 The Agrarian Myth and Peasant Essentialism; 1.2 The Agrarian Myth, Nationalism and Popular Culture; 1.3 Populism as the 'Other' of Marxism; 1.4 The Economic Discourse of Neo-populism, or Small Is Beautiful; 1.5 The Politico-ideological Discourse of Populism, or Penultima Ratio Regum; 1.6 Nationalism and the Agrarian Myth in the Nineteenth Century; 1.7 Populism, Nationalism and the Agrarian Myth in the 1920s and 1930s
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1.8 Inca 'Communism' and the Agrarian Myth1.9 Fascism, Populism and the Agrarian Myth in the 1920s and 1930s; 1.10 'Christ, not Lenin' in Eastern Europe; 1.11 Conclusion; Notes; PART I - Populist Peasants; 2 Trotskyism, Maoism and Populism in the Andes: Latin American Peasant Movements and the Agrarian Myth; 2.1 The Economic Background: La Convención 1900-1958; 2.2 The Structure and Organization of the Peasant Movement in La Convención; 2.3 The Success of the Peasant Movement in La Convención; 2.4 The Failure of the Peasant Movement in La Convención
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5 Trotskyism, Dual Power and 'Dual Power'2.6 Hugo Blanco, the Agrarian Myth and Capitalism; 2.7 Hugo Blanco, Populism and Peasant Essentialism; 2.8 ANUC and Populism in Colombia; 2.9 Sendero Luminoso, Maoism and the Agrarian Myth; 2.10 Conclusion; Notes; 3 Socialism, Populism and Nationalism: Tribal and Farmers' Movements in India; 3.1 Socialism and Peasant Movements in the Pre-Independence Era; 3.2 Class Struggle from Above, or the Weapons of the Strong; 3.3 Class Struggle from Below, or the Weakness of the Weapons; 3.4 Naxalism and Tribal Movements in West Bengal
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5 Maoism, Class Struggle and the Discourse of Tribal 'Otherness'3.6 The 'Newness' of the New Farmers' Movements; 3.7 The New Farmers' Movements, the Market and the State; 3.8 The New Farmers' Movements and Urban Bias; 3.9 The New Farmers' Movements, Gender and Village 'Community'; 3.10 The New Farmers' Movements and Ecofeminism; 3.11 The New Farmers' Movements and the Left; 3.12 The New Farmers' Movements and the Right; 3.13 Conclusion; Notes; PART II - Populist Postmodernism; 4 Postmodernism and the 'New' Populism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1 Global Capitalism and 'Peasant Economy'4.2 The 'New' Populism and the Flight from Socialism; 4.3 The 'New' Populism, Devictimization and Nationalism; 4.4 The 'New' Populism and Global Capitalist Expansion; 4.5 The Privilege of (Academic) Backwardness or the Backwardness of (Academic) Privilege?; 4.6 The (Post-) Modernization of the Chayanovian Peasant; 4.7 Postmodernism, Subalterns and New Social Movements; 4.8 Subalterns, New Social Movements, Class and Consciousness; 4.9 Revolution, Resistance and 'New' Populist Agency
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4.10 The 'New' Populism, Bourgeois Democracy, Socialism and the State
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
