Laborers becoming 'peasants
Agroecological politics in a Sumatran plantation zone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David E Gilbert (0000-0003-3394-0050, Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1030-1051 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2019.1602521 |
| OpenAlex | W2957010578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 31 |
Over the last two decades a group of rural workers on Sumatra's Aren Volcano worked with a self-proclaimed 'peasant' union to occupy and rehabilitate a bankrupt industrial ranch and plantation. Women and men worked together to cultivate diverse, economically-valuable agricultural forests on this erstwhile industrial site. In reclaiming a zone of ruined industrial production for small-scale natural agriculture, Aren's laborers transformed themselves into agriculturalists and the land into a smallholder agroforest landscape. I consider how the transformations that unfolded in Aren are agroecological because rural workers harnessed ecological processes to create their smallholder plots, and political because they addressed issues of collective land control, identity, and work. I find the linkage of these two concepts, ecologically-attune smallholder livelihood and social mobilization, to be the source of the durability of this rural workers' land reclamation
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Agroecology · Agroforestry · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Livelihood · Peasant · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Shifting cultivation · Work (physics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |