Capitalism and agrarian change class, production and reproduction in Indonesia / Muchtar Habibi.
| Author/creator | Habibi, Muchtar |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge frontiers of political economy |
| Contents | Introduction -- Exposing Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change Under Capitalism -- Agrarian Change in Indonesia and the State -- Situating the Agrarian Change in Java and Sumatera -- Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Java and Sumatera -- Agricultural Production in Java and Sumatera -- Class Reproduction in Java and Sumatera -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class ('the peasantry') to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations (competition, efficiency and productivity, and profit maximisation), these agricultural producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local agrarian change in Indonesia - rice cultivation. in Java and oil palm in Sumatra - this book exposes the different class location of the agrarian classes among petty agricultural producers and the class relations between them. These are often inextricably linked to gender, clanship and generational issues. The power of class dynamics crucially shapes how agricultural production in both rice and oil palm is organised. The share received by different agrarian classes from the production site then prominently shapes the different nature of class reproduction for each agrarian class. This analysis demonstrates that the different agrarian classes possess different capacities and responses in their relation to the state or corporations. Any real emancipation attempt in the Indonesian countryside (and beyond) must start from a proper understanding of these class dynamics. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian change, the political economy of development, rural development and Marxist political economy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022007382 |
| ISBN | 9781032212173 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032212180 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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