The imperial maize assemblage
Maize dialectics in Malawi and India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Jakobsen (0000-0003-2284-6106, University of Oslo, corresponding author), Ola T Westengen (0000-0001-6481-5178, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 536-560 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/03066150.2021.1890042 |
| OpenAlex | W3156278420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 67 |
The 'grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are 'political crops' intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled resilience, but also facilitated state and capital entanglement in the global agro-food system. This imperial maize assemblage is set on expansion, but it will continue to meet resistance in coevolved peasant-maize alliances
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Biology · Capital (architecture · Dialectic · Genetically modified crops · Genetically modified maize · Geography · Peasant · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Resistance (ecology · State (computer science · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Ecology
Vegetal Infrastructure
Fields of contestation and contamination
The political ecology of crops
Speculative crops
Colonizing the rains
Transgenic soy as a political crop and a resistance crop in Argentina – The struggle around control and rent appropriation between the state, seed corporations and soy farmers
Assemblage thinking and actor–network theory
Uneven resilience and everyday adaptation
Hybrid hilltops
The Ecological Hoofprint
The Struggle for Maize
Care of the Species
Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
The Art of Not Being Governed
Maize and Grace
The Hungry World
Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi
The Malawi agricultural input subsidy programme
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The Columbian exchange
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Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism
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Anthropology and Nature
Against the Grain
Geographies of meatification
India's maize seed industry in transition
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Structural change in Malawi since independence
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U-Turns and Full Circles
The Malawi Famine of 2002
Social Protection or Humanitarian Assistance
Seeds and Subsidies
Corn and Capitalism
The Political Economy of Hybrid Corn
Lost and Found Crops
Political ecology III
The Development of National Agricultural Research Capacity
Anthropocène, Capitalocène, Plantationocène, Chthulucène
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
The maize frontier in rural South India
Hybrid Realities
Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others
Climate-smart agriculture
The rise of flex crops and commodities
Seed struggles and food sovereignty in northern Malawi
The Long Green Revolution
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |