Essays about: "Peasant Economy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Peasant Economy.

  1. 1. The Blue Monkey In Golden Bengal : Understanding the colonial policy and socialconditions of the indigo rebellion’s peasant

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Niazul Islam; [2021]
    Keywords : Indigo Rebellion; Bengal Peasant Rebellion; Bangladesh; British Colonialism; Peasant Rebellion;

    Abstract :  This thesis investigates some social factors that instigated Bengal’s peasants to revolt against theBritish colonial raj repeatedly. The majority of peasant rebellions of Bengal have been examinedfrom the view of political economy, where the general perspective is that peasants revolted becauseof economic exploitations by planters, landlords, and other classes. READ MORE

  3. 2. Assessment of the sustainability of the small-scale food production system in Guachetá, Colombia : opportunities for agroecological interventions

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Alejandro Barrios Latorre; [2021]
    Keywords : agroecology; agroecological assessment; TAPE; small-scale agriculture; climate change; participation; Colombia;

    Abstract : Small-scale farming systems in the Colombian Andes are vulnerable to threats that affect not only the food production and self-sufficiency of local communities, but that can affect the wellbeing of farmers and the environment. A holistic perspective of agriculture leads to understanding of the complexity of agroecosystems including its elements, processes, dynamics, interactions, synergies and trade-offs. READ MORE

  4. 3. Whose sovereignty? : Food Regimes and Food Sovereignty in Indonesia

    University essay from

    Author : Jacob Schantz Klausen; [2020]
    Keywords : Indonesia; Food Sovereignty; Food Regimes; Food; International Political Economy; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how food sovereignty has been conceptualized by the Indonesian peasant union, Serikat Petani Indonesia, and how this framing has been affected by the transnational food sovereignty movement and national ideology of food self-sufficiency in Indonesia. This thesis will analyze how food sovereignty is conceptualized in the document Vision for Food Sovereignty 2014-2024 released by Serikat Petani Indonesia. READ MORE

  5. 4. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
    Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

    Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

  6. 5. Is ‘Renewable Energy’ a Myth? A Comparison between Muscle Work and Agrofuel Energy in Agricultural Production

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Andreas Roos; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study emerges from the rising concern that the now widespread faith in renewable energy systems—as a way to deal with the ecological crisis—may be unfounded. Drawing on inspiration from the global peasant movement Via Campesina and their hypothesis that small-scale agriculture is a strategy for “cooling down the Earth”, this study seeks to discuss the reasons for the widespread belief in renewable energy systems based on how they differ from animate energy systems that have proven successful in the past. READ MORE