peasantness
nounEtymology From peasant + -ness.
1
The lifestyle or status of a peasant.
- The China case was also incorporated in an international debate that centered on the conflict between conserving “peasantness” versus “peasant elimination” in the course of development and globalization (Bernstein 2006; Ellis 2000; Kitching 2001; Zaputovich 2009).2014, Anna Ahlers, Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China:
- Ethnicity as a dimension of social identity thus contrasts with peasantness in not being based primarily in the productionist assumptions of the latter term.2018, Michael Kearney, Reconceptualizing The Peasantry: