Search for dissertations about: "peasants"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the word peasants.

2. 1. Peasants and Stock Markets : Pathways from Collective Farming in the Post-Soviet Grain-Belt

   Author : Brian Kuns; Anders Wästfelt; Mats Widgren; Jennifer Clapp; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agrarian change; environmental history; Ukraine; Russia; U.S.S.R.; large-scale agriculture; agroholdings; financialization; smallholders; peasants; irrigation; uneven development; actor network theory; multi-sited and mixed methods; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

   Abstract : What happened in the post-Soviet, European grain-belt after collective farms were dissolved and in what way can we say that collective farm legacies influence agrarian developments in this region today? These are the main questions of this thesis, which is a work of critical human geography, but is also inspired by theories, methods and approaches from the social sciences, broadly defined. Territorially, the focus is Ukraine, but several articles in this thesis take a wider geographic perspective beyond Ukraine, in particular taking into account the role of Nordic investors in the agrarian sector in Ukraine and Russia. READ MORE

4. 2. Women in rural communities : Peasants, patriarchy and the local economy in Northeast France, 1650-1789

   Author : Elise Dermineur; James Farr; USA Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University; []
   Keywords : Women; gender; peasants; early modern France; historia; History;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society in the seventeenth and eighteenth century from two different perspectives—economic and socio-legal. I not only show female peasants’ social importance as I demonstrate that they had a prominent role not only within their respective households but also within their communities, but I also demonstrate that women were not as passive and submissive as the traditional historiography and common assumptions have asserted. READ MORE

5. 3. Persistent Peasants: Smallholders, State Agencies and Involuntary Migration in Western Venezuela

   Author : Miguel Montoya; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; peasants; forced migration; colonization; Venezuela; resettlement; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

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6. 4. The Conditions of Peasant Organisation : Fragmented Livelihoods and Social Memory in post-Independent Mozambique

   Author : Kajsa Johansson; Ola Agevall; Lars Buur; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mozambique; Niassa; peasants; peasant organisation; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Abstract : The thesis is an inquiry into peasants’ collective organisation inMozambique since the country’s Independence in 1975. It brings togetherfour published studies and aims to understand the historical and socioeconomic conditions for different forms of peasant organisation in postIndependence Mozambique. READ MORE

7. 5. Negotiating Involuntary Resettlement : A study of local bargaining during the construction of the Zimapán dam

   Author : Inga-Lill Aronsson; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Lucia Ann McSpadden; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Mexico; resettlement; displacement; peasants; negotiations; time; space; development; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This dissertation seeks to present and analyze the negotiation process between the Mexican Power Board (CFE) and the peasants of Ejido Vista Hermosa, who were displaced by the building of the Zimapán dam in central Mexico. I use these negotiations as a focal point to identify the strategies, the reasoning, the priorities, and the conflicts of interest of the two main actors in the resettlement project. READ MORE