Peasants, Capitalism, and Imperialism in an Age of Politico-Ecological Crisis

Mark Tilzey is an Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK. He is also co-author of Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf: Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies (Routledge, 2024).Fraser Sugden is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK. He is also co-author of Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf: Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies (Routledge, 2024).

"This outstanding book extends Eric Wolf’s classical text on the peasant wars to the present. More remarkably it is able to gain a fuller and more inclusive understanding of the rural movements in the global North as well as of the peasant wars in the global South by exploring their linkages to a greater variety of agrarian transitions through their own more comprehensive Marxist analysis."Cristóbal Kay"An enlightening discussion of the status of the peasantry and peasant resistance which intelligently updates Eric Wolf’s country studies of peasant wars and adds insightful new country studies. A useful resource for engaging with a post-capitalist, agroecological politics."Kees Jansen, Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University

• Introduction; PART I Developing Our Theoretical Approach 1 Paths of Rural Transformation in the Periphery: A Typology of Agrarian Transitions; 2 Typology of Agrarian Transitions as the Basis for the Case Studies: Forms of Peasant Protest; PART II Wolf’s Latin American Case Studies 3 Revisiting Wolf on Mexico; 4 Revisiting Wolf on Cuba; PART III Other Case Studies of Peasant Resistance in the Periphery 5 Latin America; 6 Bolivia; 7 Ecuador; 8 Guatemala; 9 Peru; 10 South Asia; PART IV Whither the Peasantry? 11 Peasants, Politico-Ecological Crisis, and the End of Capitalism