Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review)

The Geographical Journal;  June 1, 2005 ;     410 words ...Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights. Edited by...consideration of the relationships between agrarian change, gender and land rights in a number...2003 special issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change in book form, so it will appeal most...

THE SELF IN SELF-INTEREST: LAND, LABOUR AND TEMPORALITIES IN MALAWI'S...

Africa;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......small-scale labour contracts an index of agrarian change? On the other, what can the study...contribute to our understanding of agrarian change? These queries arise from an unsettling...has led to a teleological view of agrarian change. Scott, for example, has claimed that...

Modules for modernization: colonial irrigation in India and the...

Journal of Development Studies;  August 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......at poLitical economic analyses of agrarian change in India, it is surprising to see...the effects on agricultural growth agrarian change of irrigation-full stop.(3) Sometimes...process of the social construction of agrarian change, and its (in)equalities through the...

Former Israeli Minister Accuses Netanyahu of Adopting

Xinhua English Newswire;  July 11, 1996 ;     260 words ......condemned what she called arrogant colonial policies adopted by Israeli Prime Minister...Al-Ahram Weekly, Aloni warned that the colonial policies are a threat to the existence of...paper published today, she said the colonial policies must end, otherwise Netanyahu will...

Women, land, and labor: negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau...

Ethnology;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...One of the central dynamics shaping agrarian change, and one seldom highlighted, is the...specificity of capitalist development. Agrarian change is a product of complex local and...and the importance of kin ties in agrarian change are the focus of this article. This...

Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in...

Journal of Development Studies;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in Gujarat. By Navroz K. Dubash. New...groundwater) affect the patterns of agrarian change; two, the existing social relations...The logic of groundwater-induced agrarian change in the two villages (Chapter 6) explains...

Le Gouvernement des colonies, regards croisés franco-britanniques

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......continue to proliferate, studies of colonial policies (especially of their administrative...similarities between French and British colonial policies in sub-Saharan Africa. Dimier wastes...uninformed characterizations of their colonial policies, and somewhat plaintively arguing...

Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in...

Economic Geography;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in Gujarat. By Navroz K. Dubash. New...throughout the book. First, trajectories of agrarian change are affected by the characteristics...history of groundwater development and agrarian change in the area over the twentieth ...

The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian...

Northeastern Naturalist;  January 1, 1999 ;     113 words ...The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. Lawrence S. Grossman. 1998. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 268 pp. $19.95, paperback...

Colonial policies and women's participation in public life: the case of...

African Studies Quarterly;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Much of the literature on colonial policies towards women has highlighted the...Cameroons, this paper argues that colonial policies and encounters were in fact more...capable of rejecting and transforming colonial policies and ideologies that did not meet...

The Political Economy of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian...

Economic Geography;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Political Economy of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. By Lawrence S. Grossman. Chapel...learns most about contract farming, less about peasants and agrarian change, and nothing about how the patterns in St. Vincent may be...

The influence of "family" on agrarian structure: revisiting the family...

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......literatures on family farming and agrarian change in Central and Eastern Europe may...differences in starting position for the agrarian change processes. As Bezemer (2002) discussed...family farming into the discussion of agrarian change in CEE in this study arose from earlier...

HISTORY WITH A MISSION: ABRAHAM KAWADZA AND NARRATIVES OF AGRARIAN CHANGE...

History In Africa;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......experiences support a self-peasantization approach to rural history that challenges any mission-centric interpretation of agrarian change in colonial Zimbabwe. In Colin Bundy's discussion of relations between the Mfengu and Methodist missionaries in nineteenth-centu...

Special issues of periodicals.(Continuity and Change)(Development in...

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Citizenship in Japan: Taking 'Family' as a Vantage Point, by Ruri Ito. JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE v.3, nos.1-2 (January 2003): Special issue: Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights. Issue ed.: Shahra Razavi. Publ.: Blackwell Publishing...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925:A Velvet Touch

International Herald Tribune;  June 19, 2000 ;     72 words ......says in an Editorial:] The cause of civilisation is the cause of France in Morocco. The French in all the history of their colonial policies have proved that they have the velvet touch as well as the firm hand. It is only to be regretted that France and Spain...