Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The term -peasant,‖ tainted with a dated and pejorative aura, has lost the sense of attachment to the countryside that its Latin derivation connoted.Yet it is precisely from this rootedness in specific territories around the world that are suffering the effects of the Anthropocene and its neoliberal handmaidens that the peasant-led food sovereignty movement derives its capacity to advocate -climate justice‖ with such force. From Marginalization to MobilizationToday's rural activists are re-appropriating the appellation -peasant.‖They stress its modernity in terms of the culture and values it embodies and the approach to agricultural production it practices, which are more environment-friendly and equitable than the industrial agriculture model often equated with -progress.‖Karen Pederson, past-president of the National Farmers Union of Canada observed: Historically, we were peasants, then when that term came to mean -backward‖ we became -farmers‖.In these days -farmer‖ has the
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2015.19
Author: Nora McKeon
Institution: Roma Tre University
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2160158348