Kathy Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3996396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements
This contribution spotlights overt collective action as the form of everyday peasant politics in post‐socialist China. It first considers the interlinking in the post‐socialist period of global neoliberal capitalism and internal (so‐called) primitive accumulation by corrupt officials and eager entrepreneurs. Against this background it examines the collective protests of the last 20 years, focusing first on the issue of corrupt local power and the…
Neoliberalism on the Ground in Rural India: Predatory Growth, Agrarian Crisis, Internal Colonization, and the Intensification of Class Struggle
Focusing on the countryside and rural poor, this article delineates the contours and considers the effects of the Indian state's adoption of neoliberal policies in the early 1990s. It argues that the shift to neoliberalism has produced a pattern of predatory growth that has privileged urban India, entailed a withdrawal of state support for the agrarian sector, and increasingly involved the forcible expropriation of the land and resources of the r…
Gangster capitalism' and peasant protest in China: The last twenty years
This article first reviews the alliance of money and power in post-socialist China, arguing that it has generated a peculiar form of the (so-called) primitive accumulation of capital-'gangster capitalism' - based primarily on a plundering of public wealth by power-holders and their hangers-on. It then examines the tidal wave of peasant protest in China over the last twenty years. It analyzes this rural social movement, however, as not simply a re…
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta
Introduction: modernity, the semicolonial process and alternative histories Part I. Signposts: The Ming-Qing Transition and Beyond: 1. Agrarian class relations and peasant history in the Southern Yangzi delta during the Ming 2. The view from the periphery: Tongzhou and the Northern delta 3. Historical trends during the Qing Part II. The Semicolonial Process: 4. Shanghai, cotton cloth and the shaping of Nantong's modern merchant elite 5. Remaking …
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta
This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. Nantong county and the northern portion of the commercially advanced Yangzi Delta form its focal points. Lying in the hinterland of and connecte…
Peasant insurrection in China reconsidered: A preliminary examination of the Jun Mountain peasant rising, Nantong county, 1863
Focusing on a concrete historical example ‐ the Jun Mountain Peasant Rising, a small‐scale, mid‐nineteenth century insurgency in the Yangzi delta region ‐ this article re‐evaluates standard interpretations of peasant action and resistance in China. Although obscure and abortive, the Jun Mountain rising illuminates the developing role and interpenetration of ‘outsider’ communities, sectarian ideology/organisation, class formation, and long‐term tr…
Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China: Women's Work in Nantong County
In recent decades economic development theory has increasingly focused on the question of women and work. At the same time, development agencies and planners have attempted to integrate programs for improvement of the economic and social position of women into larger strategies aimed at increasing agricultural and industrial growth in the Third World. Two implicit assumptions have formed the basis for many of these programs and the theory from wh…
Neoliberalism on the Ground in Rural India: Predatory Growth, Agrarian Crisis, Internal Colonization, and the Intensification of Class Struggle
Focusing on the countryside and rural poor, this article delineates the contours and considers the effects of the Indian state's adoption of neoliberal policies in the early 1990s. It argues that the shift to neoliberalism has produced a pattern of predatory growth that has privileged urban India, entailed a withdrawal of state support for the agrarian sector, and increasingly involved the forcible expropriation of the land and resources of the r…
Gangster capitalism' and peasant protest in China: The last twenty years
This article first reviews the alliance of money and power in post-socialist China, arguing that it has generated a peculiar form of the (so-called) primitive accumulation of capital-'gangster capitalism' - based primarily on a plundering of public wealth by power-holders and their hangers-on. It then examines the tidal wave of peasant protest in China over the last twenty years. It analyzes this rural social movement, however, as not simply a re…
From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements
This contribution spotlights overt collective action as the form of everyday peasant politics in post‐socialist China. It first considers the interlinking in the post‐socialist period of global neoliberal capitalism and internal (so‐called) primitive accumulation by corrupt officials and eager entrepreneurs. Against this background it examines the collective protests of the last 20 years, focusing first on the issue of corrupt local power and the…
Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China: Women's Work in Nantong County
In recent decades economic development theory has increasingly focused on the question of women and work. At the same time, development agencies and planners have attempted to integrate programs for improvement of the economic and social position of women into larger strategies aimed at increasing agricultural and industrial growth in the Third World. Two implicit assumptions have formed the basis for many of these programs and the theory from wh…
Peasant insurrection in China reconsidered: A preliminary examination of the Jun Mountain peasant rising, Nantong county, 1863
Focusing on a concrete historical example ‐ the Jun Mountain Peasant Rising, a small‐scale, mid‐nineteenth century insurgency in the Yangzi delta region ‐ this article re‐evaluates standard interpretations of peasant action and resistance in China. Although obscure and abortive, the Jun Mountain rising illuminates the developing role and interpenetration of ‘outsider’ communities, sectarian ideology/organisation, class formation, and long‐term tr…
Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China: Women's Work in Nantong County
In recent decades economic development theory has increasingly focused on the question of women and work. At the same time, development agencies and planners have attempted to integrate programs for improvement of the economic and social position of women into larger strategies aimed at increasing agricultural and industrial growth in the Third World. Two implicit assumptions have formed the basis for many of these programs and the theory from wh…
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta
This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development. Nantong county and the northern portion of the commercially advanced Yangzi Delta form its focal points. Lying in the hinterland of and connecte…
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta
Introduction: modernity, the semicolonial process and alternative histories Part I. Signposts: The Ming-Qing Transition and Beyond: 1. Agrarian class relations and peasant history in the Southern Yangzi delta during the Ming 2. The view from the periphery: Tongzhou and the Northern delta 3. Historical trends during the Qing Part II. The Semicolonial Process: 4. Shanghai, cotton cloth and the shaping of Nantong's modern merchant elite 5. Remaking …
Gangster capitalism' and peasant protest in China: The last twenty years
This article first reviews the alliance of money and power in post-socialist China, arguing that it has generated a peculiar form of the (so-called) primitive accumulation of capital-'gangster capitalism' - based primarily on a plundering of public wealth by power-holders and their hangers-on. It then examines the tidal wave of peasant protest in China over the last twenty years. It analyzes this rural social movement, however, as not simply a re…
From Covert to Overt: Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements
This contribution spotlights overt collective action as the form of everyday peasant politics in post‐socialist China. It first considers the interlinking in the post‐socialist period of global neoliberal capitalism and internal (so‐called) primitive accumulation by corrupt officials and eager entrepreneurs. Against this background it examines the collective protests of the last 20 years, focusing first on the issue of corrupt local power and the…
Neoliberalism on the Ground in Rural India: Predatory Growth, Agrarian Crisis, Internal Colonization, and the Intensification of Class Struggle
Focusing on the countryside and rural poor, this article delineates the contours and considers the effects of the Indian state's adoption of neoliberal policies in the early 1990s. It argues that the shift to neoliberalism has produced a pattern of predatory growth that has privileged urban India, entailed a withdrawal of state support for the agrarian sector, and increasingly involved the forcible expropriation of the land and resources of the r…
Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Peasant (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · China (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)