Gender in Agrarian Transitions

Liberation Perspectives from the South

Edited by : Dzodzi Tsikata, Archana Prasad, Paris Yeros

9788195839438

Tulika Books 2024

Language: English

316 Pages

6.25 x 9.5 Inches

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About the Book

This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women’s liberation today. It focuses on the complexities of agrarian transitions in the Global South and the crisis of social reproduction especially under neoliberalism. It sheds new light on feminist struggles over land, labour and social reproduction, and enriches our understanding of popular movements and women’s struggles for emancipation across the rural–urban divide. The chapters offer empirical and theoretical contributions on gender relations in class formation in combination with race, caste and other contradictions. They critically examine the participation of women as well as the role of women’s leadership in historical and contemporary struggles, including anti-racist, anti-caste and anti-imperialist struggles.

Dzodzi Tsikata

Dzodzi Tsikata is a feminist scholar activist, currently Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her work in the last thirty years has been in the areas of the land and labour relations of agrarian and urban informal economies, and gender and development policies and practices in Africa. She is the managing editor of Feminist Africa Journal and one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.

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Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad is Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity (2011), and Environmentalism and the Left: Contemporary Debates and Future Agendas (LeftWord, 2004).

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Paris Yeros

Paris Yeros is Professor in the faculties of Economic Sciences, Sciences and Humanities, and World Political Economy at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil. He is one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.

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