{"product_id":"living-under-contract-contract-farming-and-agrarian-transformation-in-sub-saharan-africa-paperback","title":"Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter D. Little\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter D. Little is senior research associate at the Institute for Development Anthropology and associate research professor at the State University of New York-Binghamton. Among his books is \u003ci\u003eThe Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya\u003c\/i\u003e. Michael Watts is professor of geography and development studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9.09 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52288893518098,"sku":"9780299140649","price":50.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/ZnhKQVJrS2x1MCt1dVJNWVI5MDN5Zz09.webp?v=1779429211","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/living-under-contract-contract-farming-and-agrarian-transformation-in-sub-saharan-africa-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}