La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a laudatio
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The Processes and the Concept of Vertical Concentration in the Rural Economy: Peasant Co-operation as an Alternative 1 2 The Theory of Differential Optima and Co-operatives in the Peasant Economy 24 3 Credit in the Peasant Economy 53 4 Co-operative Credit Societies 72 5 The Peasant Family's Money Economy and its Organization on Co-operative Principles 91 6 The Basic Principles of the Co-operative Organization of Commodity Circulation 115 7 The Organization of Co-operative Marketing and Reprocessing Enterprises 131 8 Machinery Users' Associations 147 9 Dairy Farming Reprocessing and Cattle-rearing Co-operatives 162 10 Peasant Co-operation for the Purpose of Cattle-rearing 183 vi Contents Co-operative Insurance Associations Concerned with Land Collective Farms or 'Total Agricultural Co-operation' The Basic Principles of Organization of Agricultural Co-operativesThe Second World Series ix moving along its own trajectory which can be understood only on its own terms.This makes the need to allow this society and its scholars to speak to us in their own voice, an urgent one.Uniformity and uniformization are false as perceptions of history and wrong as social goals, but so also is any effort at keeping human worlds apart.This is true for international politics, scholarly endeavour and daily life.Half a century ago a Soviet diplomat, Maxim Litvinov, a survivor of the revolutionary generation which was then going under, addressed the League of Nations to say: 'Peace is indivisible'.The World War to follow did not falsify this statement, but amended it.Peace proved divisible but only at the heavy price of human peril.The same holds for knowledge.
Source: The Journal of Peasant Studies
Author: Saturnino M. Borras
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: European Research Council
Award: G2977939701
OpenAlex ID: W4323317262