Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780714680002)

Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.

Author: Tom Brass
ISBN-10: 0714680001
ISBN-13: 9780714680002
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.10w x 0.97d