The Rise, Fall and Future of the Jamaican Peasantry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2158199
AutoresTony Weis (Western University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen33
Número1
Páginas61-88
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150600624496
OpenAlexW2150144012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas13

This article examines the crisis of the Jamaican peasantry. Jamaica's peasants are struggling against pressures old and new, with the burden of their spatial inheritance magnified by a withering state, rising food imports following trade liberalisation, and oft-conflictive social relations. It begins by examining the historical formation of the peasantry after Emancipation, emphasising the unevenness of the landscape and the tensions between individualism and cooperation, before describing the protracted process of de-peasantisation, which has sped under structural adjustment reforms. Current conditions and future prospects are assessed through the insights and experiences of peasant farmers situated on the periphery of a plantation landscape. Ultimately, the future of peasant farming in Jamaica is seen to be bound up foremost in the struggle for land reform, and it is hoped that the current de-stabilisation of the plantation system will provide a new window for historic change

Agriculture · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Emancipation · Geography · Individualism · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Liberalization · Market economy · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · State (computer science · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban and Rural Development Challenges