Mahapurush Misra
Biographic Data
| ID | 130289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahapurush Misra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahapurush |
| FAMILY NAME | Misra |
| SIGNATURE | MISRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4887-2927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Practicing ecological citizenship through community supported agriculture: Opportunities, challenges, and social justice concerns
Green political theorists often highlight local food systems as an exemplar of ecological citizenship. Nevertheless, the topic has received scant systematic and critical treatment within green political theory. Although local food initiatives generally tend to be environmentally friendly, not all such initiatives lead to better environmental outcomes, nor can they be essentially characterized as citizenship practices that foster social justice. T…
Commercial Micro-Credit, Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness: Three Bangladesh Villages
Evidence suggests that smallholders are fast becoming one of the largest micro-credit recipient groups in Bangladesh. However, the literature on the effects of micro-credit use among smallholders is surprisingly deficient. This article seeks to rectify this gap by highlighting the ramifications of micro-credit's foray into the subsistence agriculture sector. It analyses the ostensibly disparate processes of mounting smallholder indebtedness and t…
Moving away from technocratic framing: Agroecology and food sovereignty as possible alternatives to alleviate rural malnutrition in Bangladesh
Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms, the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh
This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market-based economy. I contend that the particular positioning of the state is central to understanding this dialectic between proletarianization and the persiste…
La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants
Annette Aurelie Desmarais, Halifax, Fernwood, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55266-225-0 (paperback), $26.95, x+238 pp. Karl Marx once described the French peasantry as ‘a sack of potatoes’, existing in isolatio
Record Review-Essay: Nine Nonesuch Records of Indian Music
Recent Recordings of Indian Music: A Record Review Essay
Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms, the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh
This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market-based economy. I contend that the particular positioning of the state is central to understanding this dialectic between proletarianization and the persiste…
Commercial Micro-Credit, Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness: Three Bangladesh Villages
Evidence suggests that smallholders are fast becoming one of the largest micro-credit recipient groups in Bangladesh. However, the literature on the effects of micro-credit use among smallholders is surprisingly deficient. This article seeks to rectify this gap by highlighting the ramifications of micro-credit's foray into the subsistence agriculture sector. It analyses the ostensibly disparate processes of mounting smallholder indebtedness and t…
Moving away from technocratic framing: Agroecology and food sovereignty as possible alternatives to alleviate rural malnutrition in Bangladesh
Recent Recordings of Indian Music: A Record Review Essay
Record Review-Essay: Nine Nonesuch Records of Indian Music
La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants
Annette Aurelie Desmarais, Halifax, Fernwood, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55266-225-0 (paperback), $26.95, x+238 pp. Karl Marx once described the French peasantry as ‘a sack of potatoes’, existing in isolatio
Moving away from technocratic framing: Agroecology and food sovereignty as possible alternatives to alleviate rural malnutrition in Bangladesh
Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms, the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh
This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market-based economy. I contend that the particular positioning of the state is central to understanding this dialectic between proletarianization and the persiste…
Commercial Micro-Credit, Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness: Three Bangladesh Villages
Evidence suggests that smallholders are fast becoming one of the largest micro-credit recipient groups in Bangladesh. However, the literature on the effects of micro-credit use among smallholders is surprisingly deficient. This article seeks to rectify this gap by highlighting the ramifications of micro-credit's foray into the subsistence agriculture sector. It analyses the ostensibly disparate processes of mounting smallholder indebtedness and t…
Practicing ecological citizenship through community supported agriculture: Opportunities, challenges, and social justice concerns
Green political theorists often highlight local food systems as an exemplar of ecological citizenship. Nevertheless, the topic has received scant systematic and critical treatment within green political theory. Although local food initiatives generally tend to be environmentally friendly, not all such initiatives lead to better environmental outcomes, nor can they be essentially characterized as citizenship practices that foster social justice. T…
Agriculture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works)