The social dynamics of access to land, livelihoods and the rural youth in an era of rapid rural change: Evidence from Ethiopia
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 128, p. 106616
ISSN: 0264-8377
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In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 128, p. 106616
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 77, p. 75-83
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 7, p. 1326-1347
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 7, p. 1326-1347
ISSN: 0143-6597
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In: Third world quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, p. 698-716
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, p. 698-716
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 224-240
ISSN: 2158-9100
In: Gerber , J F , Moreda , T & Sathyamala , C 2021 , ' The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts ' , Journal of Rural Studies , vol. 86 , pp. 651-662 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.012
Over the past two decades, indebtedness has been at the centre of the world's attention, but social conflicts against private debts have only rarely been studied. Drawing on a global database of 65 cases ranging from 1765 to 2020, we offer a preliminary glimpse at such mobilisations. We find that anti-debt conflicts seem to have increased exponentially since the early 1980s and that they have involved different social classes with various political objectives, ranging from 'populist' to 'revolutionary', hence their multifaceted 'awkward' nature. Credit/debt relations are an underestimated root cause of many economic conflicts because of their foundational role in the (mis)workings of capitalism, their lasting consequences in terms of discipline and dispossession, and their potential to change one's class location, downwards or upwards. While the repression of anti-debt protests and the particular subjectivity associated with debt have often deterred mobilisations, we argue that the situation seems to be changing, as ever more people are discontented with the 'debtfare state' and the financialisation of everyday life, including that of farming.
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In: Third world quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 7, p. 1227-1246
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 119, p. 106199
ISSN: 0264-8377