Saturnino M. Borras & Marc Edelman 
Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization 

Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who
struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the
World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.

* Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically
modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down
rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families,
‘runaway villages’ in China that take up arms to resist
corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in
desperation, return from abroad to transform their communities

* Little-known transnational agrarian movements of the early
twentieth century share the stage with more recent, high-profile
global alliances, such as Vía Campesina

* Celebrates a dynamic sector of international civil society, and
tackles the thorny questions of successes and failures, ethical and
political dilemmas, troubled alliances with NGOs, protest
repertoires, and representation claims

* Analyzes contemporary collective action in all its complexity,
acknowledging ambiguities and contradictions, posing challenging
questions, and providing concrete strategies for scholars and
activists

Содержание

Preface.

1. Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics,
Campaigns and Impact (Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman and
Cristóbal Kay).

2. Peasants Make Their Own History, But Not Just as They Please
. . . (Philip Mc Michael).

3. Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America:
Histories, Challenges, Prospects (Marc Edelman).

4. La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian
Reform (Saturnino M. Borras Jr).

5 ‘Late Mobilization’: Transnational Peasant
Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa
(Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford).

6. Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil
(Ian Scoones).

7. Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America: Democratization,
Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization (Peter Newell).

8. Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental
Movements in Indonesia (Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer
Fauzi Rachman).

9. Whose Rules Rule? Contested Projects to Certify ‘Local
Production for Distant Consumers’ (Harriet Friedmann and
Amber Mcnair).

10. Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico
(Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada).

11. From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China and
the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements (Kathy Le
Mons Walker).

12. Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the
Potential for Solidarity (Kevin Malseed).

Index.

Об авторе

Saturnino M. Borras Jr is Canada Research Chair in
International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been deeply involved in
(trans)national agrarian movements since the early 1980s as a
political activist. His books include Pro-Poor Land Reform: A
Critique (2007), Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian
Reform — Vol 1, International Perspective, and Vol 2,
Philippine Perspective (2008); On Just Grounds: Struggling
for Agrarian Justice and Citizenship Rights in the Rural
Philippines (2005, co-edited with J Franco), Land,
Livelihoods and Development in an Era of Globalization (2007,
co-edited with H Akram Lodhi and C Kay), Market-Led Agrarian
Reform (2008, co-edited with C Kay and E Lahiff).

Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
He has also taught or been a visiting researcher at Yale, Fordham,
Princeton, Columbia, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the
universities of Illinois, Tashkent and Costa Rica. His research
interests include Latin American agrarian history, rural
development, and the politics of controlling markets, whether
through welfare states, social movements, or global trade rules.
His books include The Logic of the Latifundio (1992) and
Peasants Against Globalization (1999), as well as a
co-edited volume The Anthropology of Development and
Globalization (Blackwell, 2005) and the co-authored Social
Democracy in the Global Periphery (2007).

Cristóbal Kay is Professor of Development Studies
and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague. His previous appointments were at the University of Chile in
Santiago, the Catholic University of Peru in Lima and the
University of Glasgow. He has done research on agrarian and rural
issues in several Latin American countries. Some of his co-edited
books are Labour and Development in Rural Cuba (1988),
Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside
(1992), Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia
and Latin America (2000) and Peasants and Globalization:
Political Economy, Rural Transformation and the Agrarian
Question (2008).