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peasantisation

peasantisation is the alternative form of peasantization.

Meaning of peasantization

Noun

peasantization (uncountable)

  1. The process of creating a peasant class involved in small-scale agrarian practices.
    • At the same time, a strategy of peasantization might reduce (but this is by no means certain) or postpone (perhaps for a generation or so) the more acute social and political conflicts which are inherent in the process of marginalization.1981, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Between Underdevelopment and Revolution, page 123

Questions about peasantisation

What is peasantisation the alternative form of?
Peasantisation is the alternative form of peasantization.

Words near peasantisation in the dictionary

  1. peasant top
  2. peasant tops
  3. peasantess
  4. peasantesses
  5. peasanthood
  6. peasantisation
  7. peasantish
  8. peasantism
  9. peasantist
  10. peasantists
  11. peasantization

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