Rahul Rao
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199560370
- eISBN:
- 9780191721694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560370.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations and Politics
The chapter considers the articulation of class and national consciousness in the protest sensibilities of two contemporary movements of ‘anti‐globalization’ protest—the Zapatistas in Mexico and the ...
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The chapter considers the articulation of class and national consciousness in the protest sensibilities of two contemporary movements of ‘anti‐globalization’ protest—the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Karnataka State Farmers' Association in India. The lack of opportunities for political contention in domestic venues gives social movements incentives to frame their grievances in cosmopolitan terms. Yet they also have multiple uses for nationalism. Nationalism helps obscure differences of interest and/or identity amongst domestic groups, enabling the formation of alliances with other subaltern groups or across class lines. Such nationalisms are often deployed against the postcolonial state, employing a rhetoric of betrayal that accuses the state of having prioritized the interests of transnational capital over those of the nation and attempting to ‘re‐nationalize’ what neo‐Gramscians call the ‘transnationalized’ state. Rather than being antithetical to one another, cosmopolitan class consciousness and nationalist identification are conjoined in contemporary struggles for global social redistribution.Less
The chapter considers the articulation of class and national consciousness in the protest sensibilities of two contemporary movements of ‘anti‐globalization’ protest—the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Karnataka State Farmers' Association in India. The lack of opportunities for political contention in domestic venues gives social movements incentives to frame their grievances in cosmopolitan terms. Yet they also have multiple uses for nationalism. Nationalism helps obscure differences of interest and/or identity amongst domestic groups, enabling the formation of alliances with other subaltern groups or across class lines. Such nationalisms are often deployed against the postcolonial state, employing a rhetoric of betrayal that accuses the state of having prioritized the interests of transnational capital over those of the nation and attempting to ‘re‐nationalize’ what neo‐Gramscians call the ‘transnationalized’ state. Rather than being antithetical to one another, cosmopolitan class consciousness and nationalist identification are conjoined in contemporary struggles for global social redistribution.
Thomas Kruse
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197266779
- eISBN:
- 9780191916069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266779.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This paper examines the role of the state farmers, their organisation and changes as a village institution in Roman Egypt. Since the cultivation of public land in Roman Egypt constituted one of the ...
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This paper examines the role of the state farmers, their organisation and changes as a village institution in Roman Egypt. Since the cultivation of public land in Roman Egypt constituted one of the major sources of the income for the province, it is not surprising that the state farmers, usually called demosioi georgoi (public farmers), were one of the most important groups of the rural population. As public land was usually cultivated through a hereditary lease, the rural population saw the plots which were attached to their villages as their own property. It was, therefore, a natural consequence that the state farmers became involved in the management of their village’s affairs and in doing so cooperated with the local administrative officials.Less
This paper examines the role of the state farmers, their organisation and changes as a village institution in Roman Egypt. Since the cultivation of public land in Roman Egypt constituted one of the major sources of the income for the province, it is not surprising that the state farmers, usually called demosioi georgoi (public farmers), were one of the most important groups of the rural population. As public land was usually cultivated through a hereditary lease, the rural population saw the plots which were attached to their villages as their own property. It was, therefore, a natural consequence that the state farmers became involved in the management of their village’s affairs and in doing so cooperated with the local administrative officials.
