Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances

Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances Henry Bernstein has criticized the research agenda of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), and the publications linked to it, for, among other things, not having specified which classes are supposed to comprise the proposed emancipatory rural politics. The Journal of Agrarian Change organized a special issue (published in January 2023) that takes Bernstein's critique as its point of departure. It emphasized the importance of movements of the working class that straddle the rural–urban corridor. I agree, but this should not be done by de‐valuing the agrarian and the rural. The key challenge is in building agrarian, rural and rural–urban anti‐capitalist movements and alliances within and between these spheres. This calls for more—not less—attention to agrarian movements seen from the inseparable domains of the agrarian, rural and rural–urban continuum in terms of academic research and political action. A starting point, and implication, of this broader unit of analysis and political intervention is an argument against a ‘too agrarian‐centric’, or ‘merely agrarian’, mass movement‐building and political mobilization to counter regressive populism and struggle against capitalism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Agrarian Change Wiley

Contemporary agrarian, rural and rural–urban movements and alliances

Journal of Agrarian Change , Volume 23 (3) – Jul 1, 2023

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/contemporary-agrarian-rural-and-rural-urban-movements-and-alliances-G0A6XUFqqt

References (77)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISSN
1471-0358
eISSN
1471-0366
DOI
10.1111/joac.12549
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Henry Bernstein has criticized the research agenda of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), and the publications linked to it, for, among other things, not having specified which classes are supposed to comprise the proposed emancipatory rural politics. The Journal of Agrarian Change organized a special issue (published in January 2023) that takes Bernstein's critique as its point of departure. It emphasized the importance of movements of the working class that straddle the rural–urban corridor. I agree, but this should not be done by de‐valuing the agrarian and the rural. The key challenge is in building agrarian, rural and rural–urban anti‐capitalist movements and alliances within and between these spheres. This calls for more—not less—attention to agrarian movements seen from the inseparable domains of the agrarian, rural and rural–urban continuum in terms of academic research and political action. A starting point, and implication, of this broader unit of analysis and political intervention is an argument against a ‘too agrarian‐centric’, or ‘merely agrarian’, mass movement‐building and political mobilization to counter regressive populism and struggle against capitalism.

Journal

Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2023

Keywords: agrarian movements; agrarian populism; authoritarian populism; classes of labour; migrant workers; regressive populism

There are no references for this article.