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The Origin of Capitalism
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Meiksins Wood as discussed by the authors argues that existing accounts of capitalism's origins fail to recognize its distinctive attributes as a social system by making its emergence seem natural and inevitable, and challenges most existing accounts.Abstract:
Ellen Meiksins Wood challenges most existing accounts of capitalism's origins, arguing that they fail to recognize its distinctive attributes as a social system by making its emergence seem natural and inevitable.read more
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The Capitalocene, Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis
TL;DR: The authors argues for the centrality of historical thinking in coming to grips with capitalism's planetary crises of the twenty-first century, arguing that historical thinking is essential to the understanding of the Anthropocene.
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From Peasant Studies to Agrarian Change
Henry Bernstein,Terence J. Byres +1 more
TL;DR: The authors surveys themes and approaches in agrarian political economy over the last three decades, especially with reference to contributions to, and debates in, the Journal of Peasant Studies of which T. J. Byres was editor from 1973 to 2000 and Henry Bernstein editor from 1985 to 2000.
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Democracy compromised : chiefs and the politics of the land in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, a historical analysis of the embattled structures of rural local governance in South Africa, with specific reference to the role of traditional authorities in Xhalanga in the Eastern Cape, is presented.
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Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define displacement by and for development, from cost-benefit analysis to ethics, and from values to responsibilities, ethical outcomes, agents, harms, and responsibilities.
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development
TL;DR: The authors examines connections between Colombia's internal armed conflict and agrarian questions, both in terms of their historical development and their contemporary manifestations, and challenges popular notions of the relationship between conflict and development, and contributes to a critique of the conventional version of the conflict-development nexus by illustrating how the experience of capitalist development in Colombia has been violent and produced poverty.