The place of a "peasant way of development" in the search forsustainable rural development in South East Asia

Peemans, Jean-Philippe
(2015) Développement rural et petite paysannerie en Asie du Sud-Est – Leçons d’expériences au Vietnam et au Cambodge/Rural Development and Small Farmers in South East Asia – Lessons of experiences in Vietnam and Cambodia — ISBN: [ISBN 978-2-343-06407-9], p, published

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A major problem for thinking in terms of sustainable rural development is the ancient and persistent refusal of dominant political and economic elites, to take into consideration the diversity of possible routes of development. Their ideological vision most often masks the interests of a minority of powerful actors for which the peasantry and its natural life supports are only instruments to accelerate the trend towards the hegemony of capital accumulation rules . However, a growing number of case studies show that the peasants of South East Asia continue to develop ever more diversified and intensive economic activities, agricultural land and village numbers are in expansion, despite the enormous pressures that are exerted from various origins Moreover the peasant world is a world full of initiatives and innovations that cannot be reduced only to economic dimensions. Migration gives rise to the establishment of new social relationships between the villages and urban working-class neighborhoods, through multiple initiatives of migrants networks. Besides a peasantry that remains essentially focused on agricultural activity, there is the emergence of a "hybrid peasantry", half rural, half urban, contributing to redraw the contours of the village life, and to establish new relationships between cities and countryside.
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Peemans, J.-P. (2015). The place of a “peasant way of development” in the search forsustainable rural development in South East Asia. In Lebailly Ph., Peemans J. Ph., Vu Dinh Ton (ed.), Développement rural et petite paysannerie en Asie du Sud-Est – Leçons d’expériences au Vietnam et au Cambodge/Rural Development and Small Farmers in South East Asia – Lessons of experiences in Vietnam and Cambodia (p. p). L’Harmattan.