dc.contributor.author | Jakobsen, Jostein | |
dc.contributor.author | Westengen, Ola | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-11T11:29:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-11T11:29:48Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-04-21T09:10:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Peasant Studies. 2021, 1-25. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0306-6150 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2984609 | |
dc.description.abstract | The ‘grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are ‘political crops’ intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled resilience, but also facilitated state and capital entanglement in the global agro-food system. This imperial maize assemblage is set on expansion, but it will continue to meet resistance in coevolved peasant-maize alliances. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.title | The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India | |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.source.pagenumber | 1-25 | |
dc.source.journal | Journal of Peasant Studies | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03066150.2021.1890042 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1905462 | |
dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: RCN-288493 | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |