The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Dinosaur or Phoenix?

In this paper I argue for the resurrection of the political economy of agrarian change (PEACH) in mainstream policy research in order to understand the deeper causes of poverty and its transformation in rural areas. I critically examine chronic poverty research and argue that in the wake of the devastating critique of PEACH theory, an unlikely combination of post-structural and methodologically individualist new development economics (NDE) theory became hegemonic in development studies throughout the 90s and shaped emergent chronic poverty methodology. As a consequence subsequent chronic poverty empirical research tended to produce results confirming post-PEACH theory - poverty caused by assets based vulnerability experience of poor people and by their exclusion from economies and societies. In order to address the possibility of poverty as a problem of inclusion into economies and societies, chronic poverty research advanced new social relational concepts in the intergenerational transmission of poverty literature (IGT) and in adverse incorporation and social exclusion research (AISE). These and other such critical oppositional thinkers endorse a dynamic, relational transformational approach, one which combines realist structural and interpretive thinking and which coheres with critical realist PEACH methodology. However, they hesitate in fully embracing PEACH concepts - such as capitalist accumulation, class relations and unfreedom - which can shed light on materialist processes of poverty. I argue that the difficulties this body of research confronts in addressing the deeper causes of poverty can be resolved by drawing on PEACH concepts together with critical realist PEACH methods, and that the pluralism that this entails enables much deeper explanations for processes of impoverishment and escape and a wider range of empowering policy responses.

Recogiendo una alusión: por un perro que maté...

Comentarios sobre la interpretación que da Haberlandt al sistema sucesorio vasco en el que dice que es un matriarcado porque las hijas primogénitas dotaban a sus hermanos y quedaban señoras de la casa. Esto no es así, sino que simplemente a las personas se les conocía por el nombre de la casa y a la hora de heredar era indiferente si eran mujeres u hombresCommentaries on Haberlandt's interpretation of the Basque succession system. Haberlandt says that the Basque society is a matriarchy because the first-born daughters gave a dowry to their brothers and became owners of the house. This is not so, the persons were simply known by the name of the house and on inheriting, it did not matter if they were women or me

La devoción a algunos Santos y las vías de peregrinos

Se desecha la hipótesis dada por Schulten, por lo menos en lo que se refiere a Euskadi, de que hay en la costa de España diferentes capillas dedicadas a Santa Marina donde antiguamente habían templos de Venus Marina, patrona de marineros romanos y griegos. Para Echegaray las capillas dedicadas a Santa Marina deben su nombre al paso de los peregrinos que se dirigían a SantiagoThe author rejects the hypothesis given by Schulten, at least as refers to the Basque Country, that there are in the coast of Spain various chapels devoted to Saint Marina in which there had previously been Marine Venus shrines, in honour of the patron of Roman and Greek sailors. For Echegaray, the chapel devoted to Santa Marina owes its name to the passage of pilgrims to Santiag

Documentos del Excmo. Sr. Marqués de Seoane: informe

Resumen de los índices depositados en la Sociedad de Estudios Vascos por el Marqués de Seoane. Estos índices son de documentos encontrados en Archivos y referentes a Euskadi. Antes de publicarlos deber ser revisados y corregidos y añadir toda la información conocida sobre los documentos en ellos registradosSummary of the indices deposited in the Sociedad de Estudios Vascos by the Marquis of Seoane. They are indices of documents found in Archives and they refer to the Basque Country. Before publishing, they must be checked and corrected and all the known information on the documents registered in the indices must be adde

Los supuestos precedentes de los vocablos "Euzkadi" y "Euskaria"

Observaciones al artículo de Gárate sobre la toponimia vasca. Para Echegaray la palabra "Euskari" no puede haber dado lugar a "Euskaria". Por otro lado la aparición de la palabra "Euzkadia" en una poesía de 1862 hace sospechar que la palabra "Euzkadi" dada por Sabino Arana no es un neologismo, sin embargo, Echegaray dice que "Euzkadia" es "Euskaria", palabra muy corriete en euskera, con sustitución de la "s" y de la "r"Observations on the article by Gárate on Basque toponimy. For Echegaray the word "Euskari" can not have been the origin of "Euskaria". On the other hand, the appearance of the word "Euzkadia" in a poem dated 1862 makes one suspect that the word "Euzkadi" given by Sabino Arana is not a neologism. However, Echegaray says that "Euzkadia" is "Euskaria", a very common word in Basque language, with the substitution of the "s" and of the "r

La vida civil y mercantil de los vascos a través de sus instituciones jurídicas

El libro se divide en dos partes: el hogar, como alma del Derecho vasco y su indivisibilidad, y el genio mercantil de los vascos. El hogar es esencial para los vascos de tal manera que nunca se divide, se hace un estudio de las leyes civiles que rigieron en las regiones vascas. A su vez se estudia la importancia del Fuero de Donostia-San Sebastián en la historia del Derecho MercantilThe book is split into two parts: the household, as the very soul of the Basque Law and its indivisibilityand the mercantile competence of the Basques. The household is so essential for the Basques that it can never be divided. A study of the civil laws that governed in the Basque regions is made. At the same time, a study is made on the importance of the Special Jurisdiction (Fuero) of Donostia-San Sebastián in the history of the Mercantile La

Significación jurídica de algunos ritos funerarios del País Vasco

Los ritos funerarios tienen gran significación jurídica en Euskadi. Se describen los diversos tipos de funerales que hay, ofrendas, etc.The funeral rites have a great legal significance in the Basque Country. The various types of funerals that exist, the offerings, etc. are describe

Iparralde bajo la ocupación nazi (1940-1944)

Reseña bibliográfica de Iparralde bajo la ocupación nazi (1940-1944

Derecho político vasco

Es necesario dar una base científica al derecho político de Euskadi, y se ha de buscar en las costumbres y maneras de interpretación de los Fueros y leyes, no solamente en sus textos. Por tanto, un punto en común ha de ser hallado entre la variedad de usos y costumbres del pueblo, éste punto podría ser la familia, no solamente considerada como unidad social, sino también como unidad políticaIt is necessary to provide a scientific base to political law in the Basque Country. Such cognizance is to be sought in the mores and the ways the "Fueros", or special jurisdictions and laws, are interpreted, and not only in their texts. Therefore, something in common has to be found between the variety of uses and mores of the people, and such common ground would be conformed by the family, not considered only as a social unit, but as a political unit as wel

Nuevos documentos para la historia contemporánea del País Vasco : los fondos del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores francés (1940-1949)

El artículo transcribe un documento para el estudio de la historia vasca entre 1944-1949, referido a la actividad del gobierno vasco y al exilio de varios políticos vascos, entre ellos Manuel de Irujo. Se trata de una serie de cartas de varios políticos vasco