Description
This book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts.
The book?s main aim is not to say how rural development should be achieved, but to provide a basis for the analysis of the processes that make rural societies and economies what they are and substaintially determine the changes that take place within them. These papers and their framework help us to understand the nature of the phenomena with which rural development has to deal, and in doing so, to begin to evaluate the interventions of agencies and planners.
The book will be of value to students of development studies, geography, agriculture and economics, and its relevance is world-wide since it draws on material throughout the developing world, particularly Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Contents
Introduction / John Harriss
? ?Unimodal? and ?bimodal? strategies of agrarian change / B.F. Johnston and P. Kilby
? Why poor people stay poor / Michael Lipton
? Agrarian transition and the agrarian question / T.J. Byres
? Urban bias, rural bias, and industrialization / Stuart Corbridge
? The differentiation of the peasantry / V.I. Lenin
? Classical discussions of capital and peasantry / G?ran Djurfeldt
? Notes on capital and peasantry / Henry Bernstein
? Peasant economies and the development of capitalist agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia / M. Taussing
? Polarization and cyclical mobility / Teodor Shanin
? Chayanov?s theory of peasant economy / Mark Harrison
? Game against nature / Michael Lipton
? Production conditions in Indian agriculture / Krishna Bharadwaj
? Population, involution and employment in rural Java / Benjamin White
? Peasants, proletarianization and the articulation of modes of production / C.D. Scott
? The state and the peasantry in Tanzania / Philip Raikes
? Taking the part of peasants / Gavin Williams
? Towards a practical theory of agrarian transition / Mark Harrison
