In default : peasants, the debt crisis, and the agricultural challenge in Mexico /: peasants, the debt crisis, and the agricultural challenge in Mexico. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marilyn Gates.
• Other Names: Gates, Marilyn
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- The Winds of Change -- Peasants, Proletarians, and the State -- The Research Contract -- 2. Codifying Marginality: Agricultural Policy and the Peasantry -- The Ejido: The Base of the Pyramid -- The "Mexican Miracle": A Dual-Track Strategy -- Internationalization of the Economy and Emergence of the Agricultural Crisis -- Self-Sufficiency and Social Justice -- Petrolization and Global Planning -- Agriculture Under Austerity: Opening Up the Ejido -- Repealing Marginality? -- 3. Tradition and Change in Campeche -- The Place of the Snake and the Tick -- Boom and Bust: From Dyewood to Petroleum -- Town and Country -- The Debt Crisis in Campeche -- 4. The Milpa Meets the Machine -- Making Milpa: The Problem or the Solution? -- Agriculture Before State Intervention -- The Institutional Web -- 5. The Industry of Disasters -- Frontier Colonization Along the Candelaria -- Small Irrigation Projects in the Camino Real and Los Chenes -- The Valley of Edzna Agricultural and Resettlement Zone -- The Record of State Intervention -- 6. In Default: Campesinos and the Debt Crisis -- The Causes and Consequences of the Crises -- Coping with the Debt Crisis -- 7. A Way Out -- Campesinos, the Crises, and the State -- The Bottom Line of the Industry of Disasters: Benefits and Costs -- The Debt Crisis in the Countryside: Winners and Losers -- Strategies for Survival -- Depeasantization and Repeasantization -- The Future of Peasant Agriculture.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.1/87264; Peasants -- Mexico; Agriculture and state -- Mexico; Debts, External -- Mexico; Peasants -- Mexico -- Campeche (State); Agriculture and state -- Mexico -- Campeche (State); Paysannerie -- Mexique; Politique agricole -- Mexique; Dettes extérieures -- Mexique; Paysannerie -- Mexique -- Campeche (État); Politique agricole -- Mexique -- Campeche (État); Agriculture and state; Debts, External; Peasants; Agrarpolitik; Auslandsschulden; Landwirtschaft; Agricultural policy -- Mexico; Agricultural development -- Mexico; Colonization and settlement -- Mexico; Paysannerie -- Mexique; Paysannerie -- Mexique -- Campeche (Etat); Dettes extérieures -- Mexique; Politique agricole -- Mexique; Politique agricole -- Mexique -- Campeche; Agrarisch beleid; Buitenlandse schulden; Mexico; Mexico -- Campeche (State); Mexiko
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429715457; 0429715455
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