1st Edition
Class Differentiation in Contemporary Rural Societies
Introduction
Contemporary crisis of capital and re-emergence of the agrarian question
Lisandro Cañón and Alba Díaz-Geada
Chapter 1
Development of a Bibliographic Database for the Study of Class Differentiation in the Contemporary Rural Societies and some Bibliographic Reflections
Alba Díaz-Geada and Vitor Gustavo Ribeiro de Matos
Chapter 2
Social-economic differentiation in the post-soviet village: Trends and factors of Russia’s rural transformation
Alexander Nikulin and Irina Trotsuk
Chapter 3
Quinoa producers, sharecropping system, and differentiation in the peasant communities of the Bolivian highlands: connecting land access mechanisms and emerging class dynamics under the quinoa-boom
Francesca Uleri, Daniel Durán-Sandoval, and Camila Martínez
Chapter 4
Understanding Social Differentiation in Twenty-First Century Ruralities: Reflections from a Study Conducted in Patagonia, Argentina
María Marcela Crovetto
Chapter 5
Energy transitions in rural contexts: fostering class analysis though a socio-spatial approach
Federica Viganò and Francesca Uleri
Final Remarks
Lisandro Cañón and Alba Díaz-Geada
Biography
Lisandro Cañón is a Marxist historian and a professor in Contemporary History at the University of Oviedo. He specializes in the contemporary history of South America and the Caribbean. His main line of research focuses on the cycle of coups d’état and state terrorism in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. Since 2018, he has coordinated the International Network of Studies on States of Exception and State Terrorism (REDET).
Alba Díaz Geada is a social historian. She is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher in Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the Faculty of Humanities on the Lugo Campus. Her main line of research focuses on peasant mobilization and communitarian transformation in contemporary rural societies. Since 2021, she coordinates the COREGAL project (Community, conflict and revolt in rural Galiza in the 20th century).
