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Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers' fields to massive protests around the world, shaping heated debates over peasants' rights and the very category of "peasant" within the agrarian organizations and in the United Nations.

Edelman chronicles the rise of these movements, their objectives, and their alliances with environmental, human rights, women's, and food justice groups. The book scrutinizes high-profile activists and the forgotten genealogies and policy implications of foundational analytical frameworks like "moral economy," and concepts, such as "food sovereignty" and "civil society."

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century charts the struggle of agrarian movements in the face of land grabbing, counter agrarian reform, and a looming climate catastrophe, and celebrates engaged research from Central America to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

ISBN-13: 9781501773945

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication Date: 02-15-2024

Pages: 378

Age Range: 18 Years

Series: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory - Development - and Environment

Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Peasants Against Globalization.

What People are Saying About This

Anthony Pahnke

This excellent book traces the historical trajectory of peasant movements, clearly mapping tendencies in transnational activism that have taken shape over decades. Marc Edelman helps us better understand the origins of critically important international agreements and networks.

Saturnino ("Jun") M. Borras

Written by one of the most outstanding agrarian and development studies scholars, this book explains why peasant politics remains key to understanding social justice, development, and the human future. Academics and activists working on agrarian, food, environmental, and human rights movements must read this tour de force.

Paul Almeida

Compelling and original, this collection demonstrates that there is a genuine transnational agrarian movement of the marginalized and excluded. Peasant Politics is truly global in scope while balancing a focus on particular world regions, representing the pinnacle of Marc Edelman's forty years working in rural-based social movements.