Social change in the South African countryside? Land and production, poverty and power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Bernstein (University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| 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 | 10.1080/03066159808438681 |
| OpenAlex | W2031984859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 32 |
The article examines land and production, poverty and power, as coordinates of the agrarian question in South Africa, and uses them to sketch the context of the apartheid legacy, to interrogate the discourses of land and agricultural policy reform, and to investigate the paradox of the apparent marginality of reform in the ANC Government's agenda alongside a widespread and dynamic politics of land and farming. In particular, it confronts stereotypical views of large farm and small farm paths of agrarian development in post-apartheid South Africa, and suggests the importance of recent work by Mamdani [1996] on the colonial state in Africa and its legacy to the politics of agrarian reform and its relationship with national democratic revolution
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agrarian system · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Land reform · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Power (physics · Relations of production · Rural poverty · Sociology · State (computer science · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |