Peasants, populism and postmodernism, the return of the agrarian myth
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Peasants, populism and postmodernism, the return of the agrarian myth
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Peasants, populism and postmodernism
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Series statement
The library of peasant studies, no. 17
Sub title
the return of the agrarian myth
Summary
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism
Target audience
specialized
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Subject
- Human geography
- Peasant uprisings + History
- Political participation -- Developing countries
- Developing countries -- Social conditions
- Peasants + Political activity
- Economics
- Rural development -- Developing countries
- Military history
- Electronic books
- Land reform -- Developing countries
- Peasants + Public opinion
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject11
- Human geography
- Peasant uprisings + History
- Political participation -- Developing countries
- Developing countries -- Social conditions
- Peasants + Political activity
- Economics
- Rural development -- Developing countries
- Military history
- Electronic books
- Land reform -- Developing countries
- Peasants + Public opinion
- Is Part Of1
- Other version1