Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa

Fautras, Mathilde; Iocco, Giulio

doi:10.1080/03056244.2019.1688941

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“…The land question and the politics of land have been central topics in critical agrarian studies, with land reforms being a key element of post‐independence governments and thus central to state as well as class formation (Fautras & Iocco, 2019). Demand for land in the agrarian south is a direct response to colonial dispossession and in many countries, competition over land has only intensified in the late twentieth century, leading to rising land values, increasingly commercialised patterns of land acquisition, concentration of land holdings, prolonged litigation and violence (Berry, 2002).…”

Section: Land Accumulation Surplus Life and Struggles As/of Social Re...mentioning

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The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction

Mezzadri,

Stevano,

Ossome

et al. 2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of ‘social reproduction’. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage‐point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boundaries of processes and subjects analysed in political economy. Contributing to this research agenda, the special issue we present in this Introduction explores the Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change. Building on the contributions comprising this collection, we argue that the study of agrarian change through social reproduction enables us to de‐invisibilise processes of life‐making behind agrarian transformations in three distinct ways. First, the lens of social reproduction enables us to better grasp the regeneration of ‘classes of labour’ in rural areas; gender processes of de‐agrarianisation and their implications for livelihoods; and centre reproductive labour within and beyond the household ‐ across spaces and temporalities ‐ as central to life in the countryside. Secondly, this lens also allows us to complicate the land question beyond productivist readings, explore its significance for life in rural settings, and multiply the agrarian questions of our times, whose histories and trajectories must grapple with debates on economic justice. Finally, the study of the social reproduction of agrarian change also provides us with a novel vantage point to read the formation and reorganisation of complex global geographies of the rural, their relation to crises of social reproduction and the ability to redraw the urban–rural divide. All contributions in this issue insightfully advance debates on methods in social reproduction analysis. The study of the agrarian lifeworlds analysed here also contributes significantly to social reproduction debates. It challenges rigid dichotomies between the ‘productive’ and ‘reproductive’. It problematises the households as a unit of analysis and sets land as central to planetary debates on crises of social reproduction and their resolution.

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Section: Land Accumulation Surplus Life and Struggles As/of Social Re...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction

Mezzadri,

Stevano,

Ossome

et al. 2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Land Tenure in Morocco: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles

Balgley

Rignall

2021

Land Tenure Challenges in Africa

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North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming

Ajl,

Ayeb,

Bush

2023

Review of African Political Economy

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This article examines recent international financial institution and national government policy in North Africa intended to address the climate emergency. It focuses on the role of the World Bank and general policy trends since the 1970s. These policy trends fail to understand the continuing centrality of small-scale family farming to social reproduction and food production. The article stresses the significance of historical patterns of underdevelopment, and the uneven incorporation of North Africa into global capitalism. An understanding of the longue durée is crucial in understanding why, and how, agrarian transformations have taken the form that they have, and why national sovereign projects and popular struggles offer an alternative strategy to counter imperialism and neo-colonialism. International financial institutions’ preoccupation with policies of mitigation and adaptation to climate change fails to address how poverty is generated and reproduced.

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Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction

Land Tenure in Morocco: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Struggles

North Africa: the climate emergency and family farming

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