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Populism from above and below: agriculture and the political ambiguities of the Workers’ Party in Brazil

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‘Authoritarian corpopulism’ supports the rise of sugarcane and oil palm agribusinesses in Guatemala

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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initative

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Agrarian & Environmental Justice

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Authors:

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

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‘Authoritarian corpopulism’ relies on persuasion and selective violence, cloaked in the rule of law and backed by the state, to advance big business agriculture and resource extraction.

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“Oil Palm is the Answer”. Slogan of the 1st Latin American Congress of Oil Palm Growers. Guatemala, October 2013. From left to right: Guatemala’s Minister of Economy, Guatemala’s President, and President of the Guatemalan Oil Palm Growers Guild. / Photo credit Photo by the author.... Read more

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State, corporate and chiefly power is being contested from below in South Africa

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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initative

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Agrarian & Environmental Justice

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Article

Authors:

Ruth Hall

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What is the transformative potential that emerges from these struggles around land?

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Dried-up land/South Africa, January 2018. / Photo credit Flickr/Michael Mayer. Some rights reserved.... Read more

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After the peace agreement, authoritarian extractivism persists as rural development in Colombia

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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initative

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Agrarian & Environmental Justice

Colombia in Focus

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Authors:

Lyda Fernanda Forero

Danilo Urrea

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The results of the recent legislative elections only reinforce the authoritarian and militarised model of the last 16 years. What is peace?

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A policeman takes pictures of an NGO delegation to verify the implementation of the peace agreement. The picture was taken only minutes before the delegation was attacked by military forces. / Photo credit Contagio Radio... Read more

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The demise of emancipatory peasant politics?

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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initative

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Agrarian & Environmental Justice

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Indonesian fascism and the rise of Islamic populism

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Authors:

Benjamin White

Abdul Rahman

Laksmi Savitri

Devi Adriyanti

Hanny Wijaya

Ciptaningrat Larastiti

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The death of class-based rural movements in Indonesia has entrapped rural resistance in the clutches of market power.

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Authoritarian elitism and popular movements in Brazil

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Land Sovereignty

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Programmes:

Agrarian & Environmental Justice

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Authors:

Wendy Wolford

Sérgio Sauer

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Can a president institute radical popular change alongside structural inequality and a militarized elite? The Brazilian case suggests that a progressive political party requires more social movement mobilization, not less.

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ERPI 2018 Conference: "Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World"

To debate these themes, we are organizing an international conference on the theme of 'Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World' on 17-18 March 2018 at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. Confirmed plenary speakers include: Achin Vanaik, Becky Bond, Burak Gurel, Dzodzi Tsikata, Eduardo Gudynas, Hilary Wainwright, John Gaventa, Karin Nansen, Khin Zaw Win, Natalia Mamanova, Raj Patel, and Zack Exley.

Conference participants will join a series of plenary lectures and working group discussions focusing on the key sub-themes of the conference:

The current conjuncture: rural roots and consequences.
Resisting, organising and mobilising for an emancipatory rural politics.
Alternatives: understanding, supporting, creating, deepening and scaling.

This will not be a typical academic style conference, and will instead involve a very interactive and participatory approach in order to include a wide range of different perspectives and experiences. This means we strongly encourage activists and non-academic researchers whose work engages with these themes to participate.

You can read more about the ERPI in the framing paper and the contributions by Walden Bello and Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad & Cynthia M. Duncan to the Journal of Peasant Studies special forum on 'Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World'.

You can also follow our updates on Twitter and Facebook.

For queries, you can get in touch with any member of the coordinating collective or send an email to emancipatoryruralpolitics@gmai l.com.

ERPI Coordinating Collective:
Ian Scoones (IDS, Sussex), Marc Edelman (CUNY), Wendy Wolford (Cornell University), Ruth Hall (PLAAS, South Africa), Lyda Forero (Transnational Institute), Ben White and Jun Borras (International Institute of Social Studies, ISS, The Hague)

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Date:

Saturday, March 17, 2018 to Sunday, March 18, 2018

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Time:

07:45 - 18:45

Location:

International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague

Organizer(s):

Asia-Europe Peoples Forum

The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Speakers:

Achin Vanaik

Hilary Wainwright

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Understanding 'rural' authoritarian populism

The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) focuses on understanding the rise of 'authoritarian populism' in rural settings across the world, as well as the forms of resistance occurring and the alternatives being built. New exclusionary politics are generating deepening inequalities, jobless 'growth', climate chaos, and social division. The ERPI is focused on the social and political processes in rural spaces that are generating alternatives to regressive, authoritarian politics. We aim to provoke debate and action among scholars, activists, practitioners and policymakers from across the world who are concerned about the current situation, and hopeful about alternatives.

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Hindu authoritarianism and agrarian distress

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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initative

Language English

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Agrarian & Environmental Justice

War & Pacification

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Authors:

Achin Vanaik

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To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.

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Jignesh Mevani, who is insisting on going beyond identity politics, demanding not just land redistribution but jobs for all the poor, in 2016. / Photo credit Wikicommons/ Gazal world. Some rights reserved.... Read more

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