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From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico. Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940

About: This article is published in American Political Science Review.The article was published on 1988-03-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Agrarian society.
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TL;DR: A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes as mentioned in this paper, including agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth.
Abstract: A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate impacts on agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth, among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within a given spatial unit, these studies help credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across different types of locations, and (iii) nonlinear effects of weather variables. This paper reviews the new literature with two purposes. First, we summarize recent work, providing a guide to its methodologies, datasets, and findings. Second, we consider applications of the new literature, including insights for the "damage function" within models that seek to assess the potential economic effects of future climate change. ( JEL C51, D72, O13, Q51, Q54)

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TL;DR: The authors review recent uses and transformations of the primitive accumulation that focus on its persistence within the Global North, addressing especially the political implications that attend different readings of primitive accumulation in the era of neoliberal globalization.
Abstract: David Harvey's adaptation and redeployment of Marx's notion of ‘primitive accumulation’–under the heading of ‘accumulation by dispossession’–has reignited interest in the concept among geographers. This adaptation of the concept of primitive accumulation to different contexts than those Marx analyzed raises a variety of theoretical and practical issues. In this paper, I review recent uses and transformations of the notion of primitive accumulation that focus on its persistence within the Global North, addressing especially the political implications that attend different readings of primitive accumulation in the era of neoliberal globalization.

457 citations


Cites background from "From Insurrection to Revolution in ..."

  • ...Without rehearsing these debates, it is worth recalling both the disappointment of the European Left at the willing participation of European workers in the first world war and the Zapatista and Maoist innovation of championing peasants as agents of either reform or revolutionary change (Tutino, 1986; Meisner, 1999)....

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  • ...…these debates, it is worth recalling both the disappointment of the European Left at the willing participation of European workers in the first world war and the Zapatista and Maoist innovation of championing peasants as agents of either reform or revolutionary change (Tutino, 1986; Meisner, 1999)....

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TL;DR: A review of the historical literature that has applied Habermas's ideas to Latin American history can be found in this paper, focusing on a few particularly important books and examining potential avenues for research and comparisons.
Abstract: “Public sphre” is often used by historians of modern Latin America without much concern about its theoretical and methodological implications. Some historians have used it as a model to fit evidence about public debates and politics during the modern period, yet few have engaged it as a theory with deeper methodological and conceptual implications. This article will review the historical literature that has applied Habermas's ideas to Latin American history. Focusing on a few particularly important books, the article will examine potential avenues for research and comparisons. Rather than becoming a new orthodoxy for the study of the region, the theory of the public sphere is establishing a dialogue among historians interested in intellectual phenomena and political discourse (most of them centered on the history of liberalism after independence) and those historians whose interest in social formations have framed their study in terms of hegemony and class domination. The article will argue that ...

73 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In the first half of the twentieth century, agrarian reformers in the American South and Mexico came to imagine themselves as confronting a shared problem as discussed by the authors, Diagnosing rural poverty, uneven land tenure, export-oriented monoculture, racialized labor regimes, and soil exploitation as the common consequences of the plantation system, they fostered a transnational dialogue over how to overcome that bitter legacy.
Abstract: In the first half of the twentieth century, agrarian reformers in the American South and Mexico came to imagine themselves as confronting a shared problem. Diagnosing rural poverty, uneven land tenure, export-oriented monoculture, racialized labor regimes, and soil exploitation as the common consequences of the plantation system, they fostered a transnational dialogue over how to overcome that bitter legacy. Of the many voices in that conversation, particularly important was that of the Rockefeller philanthropies, who began their career in social uplift by targeting the poverty of the U.S. Cotton Belt in the Progressive Era. When they founded their renowned Mexican Agriculture Program of the early 1940s – a program that would ultimately provide the blueprint for the Green Revolution, or the Cold War project of teaching American-style scientific agriculture to Third World farmers – it was explicitly modeled on their earlier work in the American South, a region that Rockefeller experts used as a domestic laboratory for rural reform. While of great significance, the Rockefeller philanthropies were not the sole voice in the U.S.-Mexican agrarian dialogue, and the directionality of intellectual influence did not only flow southward. Especially during the radical 1930s, New Deal reformers worried about U.S. southern rural poverty looked to the Mexican Revolution’s evolving policy of land reform for inspiration, drawing upon it to draft similar programs for the Cotton Belt. Ultimately, the dissertation reveals that the project of rural “development” was decidedly diverse at mid-century, and was forged in a transnational crucible. Likewise, it demonstrates that integrating the history of the American South with that of Latin America and the Caribbean can get us beyond the historiographical dichotomy that separates U.S. and Latin American history in the twentieth century.

72 citations

01 Jan 1998

57 citations


Cites background from "From Insurrection to Revolution in ..."

  • ...Works on govemmentality conceive of culture as the constitution of subjectivities through discursive rituals and administrative practices. Thus Miller and Rose (1992) develop an approach to govemmentality by looking at specific governmental technologies, such as "techniques of notation, computation and calculation; procedures of examination and assessment; the invention of devices such as surveys and presentational forms such as tables; the standardization of systems for training and the inculcation of habits; the inauguration of professional specialisms and vocabularies; building designs and architectural forms- the list is heterogeneous and in principle unlimited" (1992: 183)....

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