Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 73-75. / by Oscar Fernández Taranco. / M.C.P.

Orientador: Maria Orlanda Pinassi / Banca: Maria Ribeiro do Valle / Banca: Frederico Daia Firmiano / Banca: Vera Navarro / Banca: Adriano dos Santos / Banca: Fatima Aparecida Cabral / Resumo: A partir dos anos de 1970, no ponto mais alto de sua expansão, o capital passa a enfrentar crises cíclicas cada vez mais freqüentes que expressam a dimensão estrutural dos limites do capital. O mundo capitalista entrou em uma profunda recessão, que combinou baixas taxas de crescimento com altas taxas inflacionárias, abrindo terreno para operar uma reestruturação produtiva, aplicando o receituário neoliberal. No Brasil, a reestruturação política e produtiva se fez sentir já no final da década de 1980; no campo, os capitais da agricultura/agropecuária foram operados na adequação à reestruturação produtiva, provocando importantes modificações na viragem da década de 1980 para 1990. Foi, porém, a partir de 1999 que os agronegócios ganharam importância decisiva no conjunto da economia brasileira. Mas não foi somente aí que a reestruturação produtiva operou, deu-se também no âmbito da agricultura familiar que, progressivamente, foi plenamente integrada à lógica e dinâmica do agronegócio, afastando a reforma agrária e sua perspectiva de mudanças estruturais. Porém, o padrão de violência contra os trabalhadores rurais é revelador de como a questão agrária nunca esteve perto de uma solução pela via da conciliação de classes. Por outro lado, o enquadramento da reforma agrária representou um retrocesso para os assentamentos, do ponto de vista da consciência política de seus integrantes, bem como na garantia efetiva das conquistas sociais, que somente têm sido obtidas, a partir do enfren... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: From the 1970s onwards, at the highest point of its expansion, capital starts to face increasingly frequent cyclical crises that express the structural dimension of the limits of capital. The capitalist world entered into a deep recession, which combined low rates of growth with high inflationary rates, opening the way to operate a productive restructuring, applying the neoliberal recipe. In Brazil, political and productive restructuring was felt in the late 1980s; in the countryside, agricultural / agricultural capitals were operated to adapt to productive restructuring, causing important changes at the turn of the 1980s to 1990. However, since 1999, agribusinesses have gained decisive importance in the Brazilian economy as a whole. But it was not only there that the productive restructuring operated, it was also within the scope of family agriculture that, progressively, was fully integrated with the logic and dynamics of agribusiness, moving away agrarian reform and its perspective of structural changes. However, the pattern of violence against rural workers is revealing of how the agrarian question has never been close to a solution through class reconciliation. On the other hand, the framing of the agrarian reform represented a setback for the settlements, from the point of view of the political consciousness of its members, as well as in the effective guarantee of the social achievements that have only been obtained, from the confrontation of classes. The totalizing control of capital impedes any expectation of autonomy, even among those who hold part of the means of production, as is the case of the settlers, placing them in a generalized condition of proletarianization. In the present research I analyzed the thematic from a theoretical study and field research, carried out with 100 people from MST camps, settlements and leaderships in the state of São Paulo... (Abstract complet, click electronic access below) / Doutor

<p>This thesis is a field study focusing on change in the agricultural landscape following Ukraine’s post-independence land reform, in which Soviet era collective and state farms were dissolved and the ownership of 30 million hectares of agricultural land was distributed to former collective farm workers. It is based on an eight-week field visit to the southern Ukrainian province of Kherson, during which time the author was able to interview 21 farmers and agricultural officials. Economists, anthropologists and even political scientists have examined post-independence Ukrainian agriculture, and more specifically discussed reasons for the widely-observed continuities between agriculture today and under the Soviet period, despite sweeping reforms. Despite the prominence of land reform as a research subject in landscape studies, there are few landscape treatments of Ukrainian agriculture in English.  The main purpose of this thesis then was to connect the empirical data I gathered in Kherson to landscape and political ecology perspectives in order to develop and explore a research problem dealing with Ukrainian agricultural continuity and change from a geographic perspective. The main conclusion is that a landscape perspective has much to contribute with respect to the debate on Ukrainian agriculture. Specifically, conceiving of the agricultural landscape as landesque capital – long-term land improvements tied to specific agricultural knowledge systems and organizational forms – helps to understand how a heavily capitalized landscape can exert an inertial impact on future developments, thereby (re)producing continuity.</p>

Thesis (M.A.)--Addis Ababa University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139).

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2009. / "May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Kevin Kern; Committee members, Lesley J. Gordon, Kim M. Gruenwald, Elizabeth Mancke, Randy Mitchell, Gregory Wilson; Department Chair, Michael M. Sheng; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 469-489).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-298). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (MTech (Public Management))--Peninsula Technikon, 2002. / Word processed copy. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-113). Also available online.

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