Historicizing the Agrarian Question

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Philip McMichael
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/102 Language Italian
Pages 19 P. 14-32 File size 136 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2013-102002
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The agrarian question is a political question with specific time-place coordinates. In the classically informed class-based approach, agrarian becomes either a location for class formation, or a site for a developmentalist interpretation of the role of agriculture in capitalist accumulation. But agrarian transition processes need world-historical specification beyond the categories of classical political-economy. Food regime analysis offers such an approach by deploying it as a comparative-historical construct in order to understand the agrarian question as an expression of global political-economic transformation.

Keywords: Agrarian Question, Food Regime, Food Sovereignty, Developmentalism, Ecology, Political History of Capital.

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Philip McMichael, Historicizing the Agrarian Question in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 102/2013, pp 14-32, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2013-102002