Capitalism and Agrarian Change

Class, Production and Reproduction in Indonesia
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-21218-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

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 locations 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habibi, Muchtar

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Exposing Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change Under Capitalism 3 Agrarian Change in Indonesia and the State 4 Situating the Agrarian Change in Java and Sumatera 5 Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Java and Sumatera 6 Agricultural Production in Java and Sumatera 7 Class Reproduction in Java and Sumatera 8 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Muchtar Habibi is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Management, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.