@DzodziTsikata feminist, academic and professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana is about the start the second presentation on #GenderStudies and #CriticalAgrarianStudies #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal #CriticalAgrarianStudies has a lot in common with #GenderStudies:

- CAS: constructing alternatives while criticizing biases in dominant paradigms in social science
- GS: interrogating androcentric biases in both mainstream and heterodox social sciences

Today! Last session on Theories & Concepts of #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal with presentations on #PoliticalEcology #Gender and #CriticalAgrarianStudies from Amita Baviskar and @DzodziTsikata
Keep tuned on this exciting discussion with 75+ scholar-activists from 50+ countries Amita Baviskar from .@IEGResearch will guide us through the ways in which Political Ecology speaks and challenge Agrarian Studies and what this brings to this conversation, regardless of the disciplinary fields!

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Moral Economy: it addresses the questions of how peasants react to the break of trust or in the face of the violation of customary practices. Such perception of injustice could lead to a reaction and resistance. E.P. Thompson originally formulated the idea of a moral economy by bringing the notion of perception of injustice derived from material deprivations.

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Shapan Adnan: According to Lenin, division of labour means that some households start to specialize, this is the factor that brings change among the peasantry.
Those who have more land will need to have more workers. There are problems with Lenin and Kautsky's theories. Some of them are regarding the linear process of capitalist development of agriculture, a key critique was raised by Robert Brenner in his 1976 paper "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe"