Civil Society and the Market Question: Dynamics of Rural Development and Popular Mobilization

by K. Ghimire (Editor)

Overview

Rather than focusing upon advanced countries, where civil society growth is seen as a post-market development, this volume explores developing countries, with case studies examining grassroots developments and experiences. The desirability, efficiency and effectiveness of market institutions as viewed by civil society organizations is addressed in this important collection, which moves the debate from acceptance or criticism of global markets to focus upon the case of rural development where local social relations and economic exchange remain more powerful and relevant than the operation of markets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403949158
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/05/2005
Series:	Published in Association with Unrisd
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

NYANGABYAKI BAZAARA sometime Director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda SATURNINO M. BORRAS JR is Fellow at the Rural Development, Environment and Population Group, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands RAY BUSH is Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds, UK MANZURUL MANNAN is Social Anthropologist at Independent University, Bangladesh NORA MCKEON is an Independent Consultant LEONILDE SERVOLO DE MEDEIROS is Professor at Graduation Center for Development, Agriculture and Society, Rio de Janeiro Rural Federal University, Brazil STEPHAN SUHNER is an Independent Researcher HENRY VELTMEYER is Acting Coordinator, International Development Studies, St Mary's University, Canada, and Professor of Development, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico NEIL WEBSTER is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Development Research, Danish Institute of International Studies, Denmark

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Diagrams and Boxes Preface Notes on Contributors Abbreviations and Acronyms Markets and Civil Society in Rural Transformation: An Overview of Principal Issues, Trends and Outcomes; K.B.Ghimire Social Movements, the State and the Experience of Market-led Agrarian Reform in Brazil; L.Servolo de Medeiros Colombian Countryside between Privileges of Latifundistas , Modernizing Authoritarianism and Peasant Repression; S.Suhner The Dynamics of Market-led Rural Development in Latin America: The Experience of Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru; H.Veltmeyer The Ability of Civil Society Groups to Influence the Debate on the Role of the Market in Rural Asset Building and Redistribution in East Africa; N.Bazaara Crisis of Rural Livelihoods, Economic Reforms and Civil Society in Egypt; R.Bush The Farmers' Movement and the Market Question in Senegal; N.McKeon Markets, Land Redistribution and Rural Social Movements in the Philippines; S.M.Borras Jr. Rural Power Structures and Evolving Market Forces in Bangladesh; M.Mannan Social Movements, Rural Poverty and Markets: The Case of India; N.Webster Index