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A central question posed by the still largely peasant populations of the global south is the feasibility of reproducing a model of development which in advanced capitalist economies, settled the classical agrarian question through the transfer and application of organizational models derived from large-scale industry to agriculture, and in favor of...
In taking stock of the work produced over this quarter-century, it is worth
reflecting on the manner in which the intellectual infrastructure was built and how
the research agenda developed. We have already offered some reflections on this
“quest for epistemic sovereignty” in a collective book published in Sam Moyo’s
honour after his passing (J...
This book is a collection of articles on the conditions and struggles of working people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean in the contemporary period. The articles have appeared in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.
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...
Gender inequalities feature in the prevailing model of financialised capitalist development, which in the peripheries is increasingly dependent on enclosures of land and nature, unbridled debt that is being shifted onto households, and deepening exploitation of gendered labour for service and industry. These conditions of accumulation generate repr...
The contemporary period of a raging global pandemic has reasserted the significance of land and landed resources as the basis for social reproduction in agrarian societies. Due to coronavirus disease 2019, millions of poor and working-class households everywhere and especially in the Third World are faced with the question of survival: that is, how...
Ifi Amadiume's seminal work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands developed significant insights into the relationship between gender, wealth and power, and anticipated the centrality of gendered labour processes in the survival of the family/household by highlighting the articulation between reproductive labour and the productive economy. In this epoch...
The Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe effected changes in the racial, class, and gender structure of land ownership. However, while changes in the racial and class structure have been well explored in existing literature, their articulation to gender in the agrarian structure is not yet well understood. This is because the literatu...
In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender, ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly imp...
This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South. It examines the diverse perspectives and regional and social variations that characterise labour relations as a result of the uneven d...
Analysis of the behaviour of the peasantry has historically focused on three main issues: perceived peasant backwardness and modernisation of peasant agriculture, the role of the agrarian economy in national economic development, and the relationship between agrarian transformations and emancipatory politics. While feminist agrarian studies have hi...
The responses of many low- and middle-income households to Covid-19 in Africa were mediated by the state through various means including direct cash transfers, food distribution, and distribution of rural agricultural produce to urban areas, in response to the social reproduction crisis that the pandemic precipitated. Taking the relationship betwee...
In this paper we broaden Marx's immiseration thesis to articulate social reproduction under capitalist growth. Specifically, we compare the female labor market in the context of the wage economy, the family household and the state, three institutions that influence the production-reproduction system. Our observations lead us to conclude that the ne...
Sam Moyo and Yoichi Mine (Eds) (2016), What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. Paperback, ISBN 978995 6763399, pp. 365, £28.
Using a social reproduction framework, this article explores how reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to capitalist production in India. Our analysis of the conditions in India reveals that the interaction of three institutions – market, state, and household – has imposed the burden of reproduction on women. In turn, wome...
This contribution is concerned with the challenges of securing women's rights to land in Africa in the context of contemporary land deals through a discussion of three distinct but interrelated problems in the framing of women's land rights discourses. First, this study discusses the interface between rights and “custom” to highlight the inherent d...
Introduction Numerous studies about the post-conflict realignment of societies have shown that, apart from the physical gaps which communities experience during war, the most destabilising effect may be the attack on culture by war and insecurity. In many African societies, culture defines the major growth stages in the lives of children; it is now...
After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initial hopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. As the Sudanese peace agreement reaches a crisi...
There are academics who argue that the most significant failing of the Arab feminist movement is that it has yet to become a political actor with significant power and influence in the social and political arena.1 Overtly radical Arab feminists are accused of being pawns of the West, of being too polarizing to represent the interests of Arab women...
