IDST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Trade Organization, Overproduction, Maoism
5 Apr 2016
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Rural poliics, transnaional agrarian movements and the struggle for food sovereignty. James scot: the moral economy of the peasant. Noion of redistribuion, rich disturb to the poor and poor to the rich. Moral economy most important part in this system is the power, which provides for small holders, when community, state fails to provide. Those who are less powerful coninually give resources to the more powerful so in imes of crisis the wealthy will provides for the poor. Moral economy is the foundaion of peasant society for the past 30 years and its only recently that it"s been torn apart. Surplus transfer from the peasants to the elite, however not everyone follows this concept. Individual"s households can decent/disagree with the moral economy. They can resist the extracion of some of their surplus to the elite. Unlikely to explicitly resist due to the powerful elite threaten. As well if only a paricular household resist you would be completely on your own.
