Peasants, academics, populists

Forward to the past

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2360970
AutoresTom Bra (0000-0002-8565-2416, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia), Tom Brass (University of Cambridge)
Año2015
Volumen35
Número2
Páginas187-204
Fecha de publicación2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308275x15569853
OpenAlexW2297079881
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas33

Traced here is the way peasant economy/culture has been reconceptualized in academic studies over the past three decades. The pre-war image of innate family farmers as embodiments of national identity, a populist discourse mobilized by the political right in Europe and Asia, was replaced by modernization theory during the post-war era. The object was to promote economic development, thereby challenging populist images of unchanging and unchangeable rural 'otherness'. With the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980s, however, there has been an academic resurgence of agrarian populist interpretations and a consequent return to pre-war concepts of peasant economy/culture

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Modernization theory · Neoliberalism (international relations · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law