Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico -- 2. Theorizing Neoliberalism -- 3. Neoliberalism and the Transnational Activity of the State -- 4. Tracing the Trail of Table Grapes -- 5. Maize and Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca -- 6. Disjuncture between Economic...

Front Cover -- From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Agricultural "Economy -- CHAPTER 2 Economics and the Self-Interested Individual -- CHAPTER 3 Community and the...

The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its...

Preface: from Narmada to Rajpura -- Introduction -- Genesis of the land broker state -- Rajpura -- Dispossession -- Differentiation by speculation -- Peasants in a knowledge economy -- On the margins of a world city -- Reprise: dispossession without development -- Politics after dispossession --...

This book links political and economic sociology examining how postsocialist property changes are rooted in the socialist past and how they relate to the meaning and practices of transition states and their capacity for sustainable economic development. It raises the issue of the applicability...