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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Misra, Manoj

Titel

Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms, the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh

Ist Teil von

• Journal of agrarian change, 2017-07, Vol.17 (3), p.594-611

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market‐based economy. I contend that the particular positioning of the state is central to understanding this dialectic between proletarianization and the persistence of small peasants amid a huge rush towards the formation of a capitalist market economy. I conclude that the partial nature of agrarian transformation that we now experience in Bangladesh may not be resolved in favour of a complete proletarianization of small peasants in the foreseeable future.