Speaker: Matthew A HALE
(Lecturer, Faculty of English Education, Sun Yat-sen University)
Time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, 14 March 2014
Venue: Room 401 Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
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This talk draws on several years of ethnographic research and secondary sources to analyze peasant collective action in relation to capitalist development in China since the 1990s. In post-socialist China, capital extracts surplus-value from peasants in three main ways: (1) through "unequal exchange" in the markets for credit, agricultural inputs and products; (2) through "accumulation by dispossession" (direct appropriation or destruction of peasants' land, etc.); and (3) through the wage relation. Each type of extraction has elicited corresponding forms of collective action, including petitions, riots, strikes, and cooperative enterprises. This talk draws on cases of each form in order to postulate some of their predominant tendencies, focusing on their relation to the present "holding pattern" of capitalist overaccumulation in China and globally.
ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME
Feel free to bring your box lunch or sandwich to eat during the talk
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