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      Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism
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      Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism

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      The Return of the Agrarian Myth

      Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism

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      Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism book

      The Return of the Agrarian Myth
      ByDr Tom Brass
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 1 April 2000
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203044964
      Pages 396
      eBook ISBN 9780203044964
      Subjects Global Development
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      Brass, D.T. (2000). Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203044964

      ABSTRACT

      Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 7|8 pages

      . 1 1 Conclusion 29

      chapter 1|54 pages

      Peasants, Populism and the Agrarian Myth: The Historical Background

      part |2 pages

      PART I- Populist Peasants

      chapter 2|33 pages

      Trotskyism, Maoism and Populism in the Andes: Latin American Peasant Movements and the Agrarian Myth

      chapter 3|43 pages

      Socialism, Populism and Nationalism: Tribal and Farmers' Movements in India

      part |2 pages

      PART II- Populist Postmodernism

      chapter 4|46 pages

      Postmodernism and the 'New' Populism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth

      chapter 5|46 pages

      Others Who Also Return: The Agrarian Myth, the 'New' Populism and the 'New' Right

      part |2 pages

      PART III- Populist Culture

      chapter 6|34 pages

      Popular Culture, Populist Fiction(s): The Agrarian Utopiates of A.V. Chayanov, Ignatius Donnelly and Frank Capra

      chapter 7|41 pages

      Nymphs, Shepherds and Vampires: The Agrarian Myth on Film

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