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Cultivating dissent : work, identity, and praxis in rural Languedoc
- Title
- Cultivating dissent : work, identity, and praxis in rural Languedoc / Winnie Lem.
- Author
- Lem, Winnie.
- Publication
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DC611.L32 L46 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 268 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Focusing on a community of small family farmers in the Languedoc region of Mediterranean France, Cultivating Dissent shows how rural people struggle against disintegration brought on by the development of capitalism and state modernization imperatives. Lem challenges the image that small farmers tend to be either uninterested in politics or rather conservative in their views. She also argues against another prevailing image of agrarian people which suggests that the distinctiveness of their regional and local cultures disappears when they become embedded in the commercial world of the market and in modern national culture.
- Of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, Cultivating Dissent presents a case in which rural people conform neither to the image of the quiescent and conservative farmer nor to that of the culturally assimilated national subject.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in national identities
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in national identities
- Subject
- Geschichte 1900-1999
- Country life > France > Languedoc
- Capitalism > France > Languedoc > Influence
- Capitalism > Influence
- Country life
- Social conditions
- Kleinbauer
- Kapitalismus
- Nonkonformismus
- Agrarische maatschappij
- Sociale verandering
- Vie rurale > France > Languedoc (France)
- Capitalisme > France > Languedoc (France)
- Languedoc (France) > Social conditions
- France > Languedoc
- Languedoc
- Languedoc (France) > Conditions sociales
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.
- Contents
- A Disappearing World? -- Place, Politics, and Identity -- The Place, The People, and the Land -- People and Politics in Rural Languedoc -- Cultures of Class and Region: Collective Identity and Its Configurations -- Work, Social Relations, and Everyday Life -- Negotiating Consensus: Production, Reproduction, and Power in the Domestic Realm -- Engendered Practices: The Politics of Wine, Women, and Work -- Between Friends, Among Neighbors -- Harvesting Disenchantment: Cooperatives, Control, and Alienation -- Subjects, Subjectivity, and Praxis in Late Capitalism.
- ISBN
- 0791441873
- 9780791441879
- 0791441881
- 9780791441886
- LCCN
- 98054770
- OCLC
- ocm40489379
- 40489379
- SCSB-863796
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library