‘Breaking the backbone of farmers’: contestations in a rural employment guarantee scheme

This paper examines narratives about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to reveal people's interpretations of changes to agrarian relations in Andhra Pradesh. Through narratives, we are able to reveal more than just the material relations of production, unve...

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Published inThe Journal of peasant studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 263 - 281
Main Author Jakimow, Tanya
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Routledge 04.03.2014
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Agricultural development
Agricultural labour
Agricultural production
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh, India
development programs
Employment
Farmers
Forces and Relations of Production
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Government aid
Government policy
India
Labour relations
MGNREGA
Modes of Production
Narratives
Public policy
Rural Areas
subject positions
Subjectivity
Threat
Andhra Pradesh India
India
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Summary:This paper examines narratives about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to reveal people's interpretations of changes to agrarian relations in Andhra Pradesh. Through narratives, we are able to reveal more than just the material relations of production, unveiling internalised modes of control, how these have come under threat in recent times, and discursive strategies to restore them – albeit in modified form. It argues that the MGNREGA has become a site of ideological contestation, in which the scheme means either an entitlement to government support, or alternatively a threat to existing modes of control that can only be reinstated through the scheme itself.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.890932
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ISSN:1743-9361
0306-6150
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DOI:10.1080/03066150.2014.890932