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JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 691-724Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2176760
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La Via Campesina; agrarian populism; agrarian Marxism; agrarian politics; knowledge politics; Critical Agrarian Studies
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La Via Campesina has revitalized agrarian politics, reshaped knowledge politics, and helped create Critical Agrarian Studies. It has demonstrated the crucial role of agrarian movements in anti-capitalist struggles and in shaping a radically different and positive future. The significance of LVC lies not in the declining number of farming populations or agriculture's shrinking macroeconomic contributions, but in its powerful political representation of an alternative future.
La Via Campesina has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important role of agrarian movements in anti-capitalist struggles and the radical reimagination and construction of a positive future. The significance of LVC is found not in the shrinking numerical size of farming populations or in agriculture's dwindling macroeconomic contributions to national economies, in relative terms, but in the political heft of what it represents in terms of an alternative future that is so different from the current agrarian world.
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