Peasants Against Globalization
Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
byMarc Edelman
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Peasants Against Globalization
Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
byMarc Edelman
"This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica, leading to major cutbacks in the social programs that had permitted the rural poor to attain an acceptable standard of living and a modicum of dignity."--BOOK JACKET.
"Peasants were in the forefront of movements against these cutbacks, marching, blocking highways, and occupying government buildings. In the struggle to preserve their livelihood, the rural poor also formed alliances with wealthy farmers, negotiated with politicians, and embraced and then repudiated charismatic outsiders who came to live among them and to speak in their name."--BOOK JACKET.
"The author argues that the experience of rural activism in Costa Rica in the 1980s and 1990s calls into question much current theory about collective action, peasantries, development, and ethnographic research.
The book invites the reader to rethink debates about old and new social movements, to grapple with the ethical and methodological dilemmas of engaged ethnography, to retrace the long history of development ignored by its postmodernist critics, and to come face-to-face with peasants stubbornly committed to survival."--BOOK JACKET.
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Peasants, latin america,Social movements,Costa rica, economic conditions,Costa rica, politics and government,Costa rica, social conditions,Economic policy,Peasantry,Political activity,Peasants,Paysannerie,Activite politique,Entwicklungspolitik,Mouvements sociaux,Bauernbewegung,Globalisierung,Boerenbewegingen,Protestbewegung,Rural conditions,Politique economique,InternationalisatiePlaces
Costa Rica| Edition | Availability |
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| 1 Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica 2000, Stanford University Press in English 0804778892 9780804778893 | zzzz |
| 2 Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica October 18, 1999, Stanford University Press Paperback in English - 1 edition 0804736936 9780804736930 | aaaa |
| 3 Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica October 18, 1999, Stanford University Press Hardcover in English - 1 edition 0804734011 9780804734011 | zzzz |
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- Library of Congress
- HD1339.C8 E33 1999,HD1339,HD1339.C8 E33 2000
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- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 344
- Dimensions
- 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Weight
- 1 pounds
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