What Makes Peasants Revolutionary?

Skocpol, Theda; Migdal, Joel S.; Paige, Jeffery M.; Scott, James C.; Wolf, Eric R.

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“…The consequences of the green revolution technologies including farm mechanization are likely to go beyond migration. For example, the results of the shift from traditional farming to commercial farming in peasant economies may include unequal distribution of economic benefits (Cleaver ; Griffin ; Jacoby ), unemployment (Griffin ; Jacoby ), and possible peasant revolutions (Paige ; Scott ; Skocpol ; Wolf ). Scholars have also argued that agricultural modernization or the use of modern farm technologies mostly benefit large farmers (Griffin ; Jacoby ).…”

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Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out‐migration

Bhandari

Ghimire

2016

Rural Sociology

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We investigate the impact of household use of labor‐saving farm technologies on first‐time out‐migration after the household agriculture and consumption survey was conducted in 1996. Building on the labor substitution framework, we hypothesize that household use of labor‐saving technologies (e.g., tractors, farm implements, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides) increases individual out‐migration. To estimate the effects of the use of labor‐saving farm technologies on out‐migration, we use uniquely detailed panel data from the rapidly changing rural agrarian, migrant‐sending setting of Nepal. The results of our multilevel, discrete‐time, event history models suggest that net of other known factors associated with out‐migration, household use of farm technology—particularly the use of tractors—significantly increases out‐migration.

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Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out‐migration

Bhandari

Ghimire

2016

Rural Sociology

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“…Wolf made a compelling case that peasants—far from the undifferentiated and isolated communities once described by Marx as “homologous multitudes, much as potatoes in a sack”—were always integrated into larger economic systems, which created the structural conditions of class antagonism (Marx, , p. 123). Meanwhile, the nascent field of peasant studies was given twofold stimulus to grow; first, by the attention focused on anti‐colonial peasant wars in places like Algeria and Vietnam, and second, by the academic work of “agrarian structuralists” like Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, who shifted from the orthodox Marxist interest in urban class conflict to analyzing the relations between landlords and peasants in the countryside (Moore, ; Skocpol, , , ).…”

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Lost and found, then lost again? The social history of workers and peasants in the modern Middle East

Anderson

2016

History Compass

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Academic research on the history of the “modern Middle East” in European languages initially emerged in conjunction with efforts to dominate and colonize the region. Yet it was not until the post‐war wave of de‐colonization that what we recognize today as “social history” began to emerge in the field of Middle East studies. At the time, structural functionalism set the parameters for the field, with the elite‐centric “notables paradigm” providing a durable way for historians to think about the region. This scholarship was soon eclipsed by the “new social history,” which aimed to shed light on the previously neglected lives of provincials, women, workers, peasants, slaves, and others. But the “cultural turn” has served for the past twenty or so years to push back against the impulses that used to motivate social historians. This article provides an overview of these developments, along with suggestions for future research in the field of Middle East studies to re‐focus on the lives of workers and peasants. I argue that recent research, informed by theories of performance and a critical geographic approach to institutions and the state–society relationship, overcomes the epistemological critiques embodied in the cultural turn and provides promising new directions for the study of workers and peasants in the modern Middle East.

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“…They were, in part, mutually exclusive and their supporters could provide some empirical data to defend them against rival theories. Thus, for a decade or so after the publication of The Rational Peasant, there was lively debate between Popkin and his supporters, and structural theorists and theirs (see Tilly 1978;Skocpol 1982;Paige 1983;Rule 1988).…”

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“…In seizing local power the insurgents undertake a project of 'competitive statebuilding' (Kalyvas 2006; also see Huntington 1968;Tilly 1978;Skocpol 1982;Goodwin and Skocpol 1989). They begin to perform the functions of a state before they are close to seizing power in the capital.…”

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The Political Economy of Conflict between Indigenous Communities and Dominant Societies: Adivasis, Maoist Insurgents and the State in the Central Indian Tribal Belt

Kennedy

2013

SSRN Journal

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What Makes Peasants Revolutionary?

Cited by 140 publications

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Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out‐migration

Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out‐migration

Lost and found, then lost again? The social history of workers and peasants in the modern Middle East

The Political Economy of Conflict between Indigenous Communities and Dominant Societies: Adivasis, Maoist Insurgents and the State in the Central Indian Tribal Belt

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