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Does the Arab region have an agrarian question?

Ajl, Max·2021·The Journal of Peasant Studies
DOI 10.1080/03066150.2020.1753706
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Discussion on food sovereignty and agro-ecology, and Anglophone rural sociology have blind spots when it comes to the Middle East/North African (Arab) region. This article explores them; outlines some initial concepts, discusses avenues for research, and notes some socio-political features of the region which make it distinct from others. It focuses on the necessity to include war and the national question to understand the regional agrarian question and advances and retreats in regional knowledge production. It proceeds by (1) establishing the relative absence of the region from the leading peasant studies journals; (2) synthesizing the region’s political economy and waves of knowledge production; (3) highlighting local traditions which speak to the questions of food sovereignty and agro-ecology; and (4) listing a series of theoretical, historical, and analytical avenues which remain to be addressed.

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  • Agroecology has helped put the peasant question back on the agenda in the periphery and core, militating against antipeasant and antiecological attitudes entrenched across the Northern political spectrum.

    “This approach has helped put the peasant question back on the agenda in periphery and core, militating against antipeasant and antiecological attitudes entrenched across the Northern political spectrum, including the Northern left, often blind to the role of smallholders, pastoralists, and the semi-proletariat in social reproduction and socialist transition (Ajl, 2020).”

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Authors
Ajl, M.
Affiliations
Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
ORCID
Ajl, Max
Venue
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2020-05-20
Volume
48
Issue
5
Pages
955-983
ISSN
  • 0306-6150
  • 1743-9361
DOI
10.1080/03066150.2020.1753706
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Language
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American Institute for Maghrib Studies

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