peasantization

English

Alternative forms

• peasantisation

Etymology

From peasantize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛzn̩tʌɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

Noun

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.