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Cultivating dissent : work, identity, and praxis in rural Languedoc / Winnie Lem
Bib ID 2888300
Format BookBook
Author Lem, Winnie
Online Versions Table of Contents
Description Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1999. 
xviii, 268 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0791441873  0791441881 (pbk.) 
Series SUNY series in national identities 
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."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents Introduction: A Disappearing World? -- Pt. 1. Place, Politics, and Identity. Ch. 1. The Place, The People, and the Land. Ch. 2. People and Politics in Rural Languedoc. Ch. 3. Cultures of Class and Region: Collective Identity and Its Configurations -- Pt. 2. Work, Social Relations, and Everyday Life. Ch. 4. Negotiating Consensus: Production, Reproduction, and Power in the Domestic Realm. Ch. 5. Engendered Practices: The Politics of Wine, Women, and Work. Ch. 6. Between Friends, Among Neighbors. Ch. 7. Harvesting Disenchantment: Cooperatives, Control, and Alienation. Ch. 8. Subjects, Subjectivity, and Praxis in Late Capitalism. 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.

Subjects Country life - France - Languedoc.  |  Capitalism - France - Languedoc - Influence.  |  Languedoc (France) - Social conditions.
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