peasantization

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From peasantize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpɛzn̩tʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

Noun

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peasantization (uncountable)

  1. The process of creating a peasant class involved in small-scale agrarian practices.
    • 1981, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Between Underdevelopment and Revolution, page 123:
      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.
    • 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 602:
      Indeed, in so far as the ‘peasantisation’ of the squires was in line with the basic peasant ideal of creating a society made up entirely of smallholding family farmers, it was even something to be welcomed.