Description: Explores rural resistance, class consciousness, and the politics of contemporary culture through the experience of family farmers in France's "red south."
Brief description: Winnie Lem is Associate Professor in Comparative Development Studies and Women's Studies at Trent University, Canada.
Review Quotes:
"I find this to be a valuable contribution to the anthropology of Europe and to peasant studies, and also a nuanced examination of the economic and cultural formations of late capitalism." -- Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Cultivating Dissent is an engaging account of the lives of small-scale wine growers. One gets a feel for their involvement in political activity and their resistance to state mandates and capital accumulation. The discussion of household production and gender are especially compelling." -- Robert C. Ulin, author of Vintages and Traditions: An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Wine Cooperatives