Cultivating Dissent

Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Explores rural resistance, class consciousness, and the politics of contemporary culture through the experience of family farmers in France's "red south."Focusing on a community of small family farmers in the Languedoc region of Mediterranean France, Cultivating Dissent shows how rural people struggle against disintegration brought on by the development of capitalism and state modernization imperatives. Lem challenges the image that small farmers tend to be either uninterested in politics or rather conservative in their views. She also argues against another prevailing image of agrarian people which suggests that the distinctiveness of their regional and local cultures disappears when they become embedded in the commercial world of the market and in modern national culture. Of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, Cultivating Dissent presents a case in which rural people conform neither to the image of the quiescent and conservative farmer nor to that of the culturally assimilated national subject.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-05-13
Mått149 x 226 x 16 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in National Identities
Antal sidor268
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791441886

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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Disappearing World?Part 1: Place, Politics, and Identity Chapter 1 The Place, The People, and the LandChapter 2 People and Politics in Rural LanguedocChapter 3 Cultures of Class and Region: Collective Identity and Its ConfigurationsPart 2: Work, Social Relations, and Everyday Life Chapter 4 Negotiating Consensus: Production, Reproduction, and Power in the Domestic RealmChapter 5 Engendered Practices: The Politics of Wine, Women, and WorkChapter 6 Between Friends, Among NeighborsChapter 7 Harvesting Disenchantment: Cooperatives, Control, and AlienationChapter 8 Subjects, Subjectivity, and Praxis in Late CapitalismNotes Bibliography Index

"I find this to be a valuable contribution to the anthropology of Europe and to peasant studies, and also a nuanced examination of the economic and cultural formations of late capitalism." — Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst"Cultivating Dissent is an engaging account of the lives of small-scale wine growers. One gets a feel for their involvement in political activity and their resistance to state mandates and capital accumulation. The discussion of household production and gender are especially compelling." — Robert C. Ulin, author of Vintages and Traditions: An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Wine Cooperatives

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