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1 Harriss-White, B. 2006. Poverty and capitalism. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(13):1241-1246.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7537 Record No: H038725)
2 Redclift, M.; Giordano, M.; Matzke, M.; Watts, M. 2001. Classics in human geography revisited. "Watts, M. 1983: Silent violence: food, famine and peasantry in northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University of California Press." Commentary 1; Commentary 2; Author's response: lost in space. Progress in Human Geography, 25(4):621-628.
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3 Carmody, P. 2012. A global enclosure: the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa. In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.120-133.
Food security ; Biofuels ; Land acquisitions ; Foreign investment ; Capitalism / Africa / Ethiopia / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045674)
4 Sugden, Fraser. 2013. Pre-capitalist reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: semi-feudal agriculture in an era of globalisation. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(3):519-545. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2013.763494]
Agricultural economics ; Capitalism ; Globalization ; Social participation ; Political aspects ; Feudalism ; Markets ; Land tenure ; Land reform ; Households ; Case studies / Nepal
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00472336.2013.763494
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This article highlights the continued significance of pre-capitalist formations in shaping the trajectory of economic transition in peripheral regions, even in an era of neo-liberal globalisation. There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. Using a case study from Nepal's far eastern Tarai, this paper seeks to understand the reproduction of feudal social relations in a region which is both accessible and integrated into regional and global markets. The paper traces the early subordination of indigenous groups to feudalism from the eighteenth century onwards, and the political and ideological processes through which these social relations were reinforced. Through examining the historical role of feudal-colonial alliances, however, the paper notes that pre-capitalist reproduction in Nepal is a dynamic process, actively negotiated and reinforced by the external imperatives of capitalist expansion itself as well as through the entrenched political power of landed classes. Today feudal and capitalist formations co-exist and articulate, with surplus divided between landlords and non-farm employers. Understanding the complex dynamics of feudal or “semi-feudal” reproduction in an era of globalisation is crucial if one is to identify avenues for collective mobilisation against inequitable pre-capitalist and capitalist class relations.
5 Young, I. M. 2011. Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press. 286p.
Philosophy ; Political systems ; Democracy ; Legal aspects ; Capitalism ; Social groups ; Participatory approaches ; Public participation ; Social institutions ; Communities ; Urban areas ; Cultural factors ; Social behaviour ; Discrimination ; Labor ; Empowerment ; Social welfare ; Education
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6 Wise, R. D.; Veltmeyer, H. 2016. Agrarian change, migration and development. Black Point, NS, Canada: Fernwood Publishing. 146p. (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series 6)
Agrarian reform ; Labour mobility ; Migrant labour ; Rural urban migration ; Children ; International division of labour ; Income ; Remuneration ; Labour market ; Gender ; Political aspects ; Economic development ; Capitalism ; Rural poverty ; Social impact ; Institutions / USA / Mexico
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7 Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P. S. (Eds.) 2016. Water: growing understanding, emerging perspectives. New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan. 559p. (Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society)
Water resources development ; Groundwater management ; Groundwater depletion ; Water scarcity ; Water allocation ; Drinking water ; Agriculture ; Water use efficiency ; Water demand ; Water market ; Water rates ; Pricing ; Water policy ; Institutional reform ; Privatization ; Political aspects ; River basins ; Dams ; Balance of nature ; Monsoon climate ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation canals ; Wells ; Indigenous knowledge ; Socioeconomic environment ; Colonialism ; Gender ; Caste systems ; Capitalism ; Conflict ; Irrigation efficiency ; Electricity supplies ; Economic value ; Gross national product ; Agrarian reform ; Green revolution ; Case studies / India / Gujarat / Bihar / Punjab / Bengal / Indus Basin / Mahanadi Delta / Chhattisgarh / Cauvery River / Jyotirgram Scheme / Narmada Project / Sardar Sarovar Project
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8 Sugden, Fraser. 2017. A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar. Dialectical Anthropology, 41(2):129-161. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9436-3]
Agricultural production ; Climate change ; Cultivated land ; Lowland ; Landowners ; Agrarian structure ; Tenant farmers ; Labour ; Living standards ; Political aspects ; Capitalism ; Feudalism ; Colonialism ; Rural communities ; Households ; Social aspects ; History ; Caste systems ; Migration ; Economic situation ; Indebtedness ; Farm income ; Remuneration / Nepal / India / North Bihar / Tarai / Eastern Gangetic Plains / Madhesh / Mithilanchal / Madhubani / Dhanusha / Morang / Purnea / Sunsari
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The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia represents a peripheral region far from the centers of global capitalist production, and this is all the more apparent in Mithilanchal, a cultural domain spanning the Nepal/Bihar border. The agrarian structure can be considered ‘semi-feudal’ in character, dominated by landlordism and usury, and backed up by political and ideological processes. Paradoxically, Mithilanchal is also deeply integrated into the global capitalist market and represents a surplus labor pool for the urban centers of Western India as well as the Persian Gulf in a classic articulation between pre-capitalist and capitalist modes of production. A review of the changes in the agrarian structure over recent decades in the context of globalisation, out-migration and climate stress, shows that while landlordism remains entrenched, the relationship between the marginal and tenant farmer majority and the landed classes has changed, with the breakdown of ideological ties and reduced dependence on single landlords. The paper thus ends on a positive note, as the contemporary juncture represents an opportune moment for new avenues of political mobilization among the peasantry.
9 Myint-U, T. 2020. The hidden history of Burma: race, capitalism, and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century. New York, NY, USA: W. W. Norton & Company. 288p.
History ; Political systems ; Democracy ; Capitalism ; Socialism ; Ethnicity ; Refugees ; Migration ; Civil conflict ; Economic growth ; Colonialism ; International organizations ; Rural development ; Community development / South East Asia / Myanmar / China / Irrawaddy River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 959.1053 G590 MYI Record No: H049477)
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10 Sugden, Fraser; Nigussie, Likimyelesh; Debevec, Liza; Nijbroek, R. 2022. Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal. Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5):1101-1131. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1894552]
Migration ; Agrarian structure ; Labour mobility ; Remittances ; Income ; Remuneration ; Capitalism ; Peasantry ; Agriculture ; Investment ; Farmers ; Landlessness ; Tenants ; Livelihoods ; Women ; Decision making ; Highlands ; Communities / Ethiopia / Kenya / Nepal / Tigray / Chirkhuwa Valley / Gatanga / Muragua / Embahasti / Raya Azebo / Kimalung / Gufagaon / Sanrang / Aaptari / Bhadare
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This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the trajectory of change within agriculture. The dual dependence on both migrant income and agriculture within these upland communities often translates into an intensifying work burden on the land, and rising profits for capitalism. However, on some occasions this income can support increased productivity and accumulation within agriculture – although this depends on both the agro-ecological context and the local agrarian structure.
11 Parker, J. D. 2022. Ecologies of development: ecophilosophies and indigenous action on the Tana River. History in Africa, 32p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2022.11]
Ecological factors ; Rivers ; Economic development ; Indigenous knowledge ; Pastoral society ; Communities ; Colonialism ; Capitalism ; Ethnic groups ; Social aspects ; Political aspects ; Conflicts ; Irrigation schemes ; Floodplains / East Africa / Kenya / Tana River
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This article argues for a reorientation of African environmental history that incorporates localized ecophilosophies, racial ecologies, and environmental justice, and posits that doing so allows us to challenge the sociocultural and ecological implications of colonial and postcolonial environmental development more rigorously in East Africa. Focusing on Kenya, I argue that environmental justice-oriented histories of economic development elevate the subjectivities, cosmologies, and experiences of rural Kenyan populations rather than reducing the environment and its resources to their instrumental qualities On the Tana River, pastoral and riverine groups such as the Pokomo and Orma suffered and challenged the exigencies of water extraction in specific ways tied to their existing relationships with the local environment. By looking at the ways rural communities in arid regions framed their environmental relationships, we can begin to appreciate the specific modalities and cosmologies through which they resisted the imposition of cash crop agriculture and water development. The article demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach utilizing Black ecologies and environmental justice frameworks that restores vitality to the rural experience of imperialism and offers more rigorous critiques of global development dogmas under racial capitalism, particularly surrounding the omnipresent threat of ecocide driven by dispossession, resource extraction, toxicity, and climate change.
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