Beschreibung
This is an ethnographic analysis of how the EU’s Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) was deployed by policy makers and elites in the first year
after EU membership, and how it shaped peasant livelihoods. Given the
polarised nature of Romania’s postsocialist agrarian structure, the CAP
excluded peasants from its policies, and demanded they change their
subsistence farms into commercial farms. Arguing from the premise that
subsistence farms are actually peasant households working on different
principles from farms altogether, it was possible to inquire into the
resourceful strategies people deployed in their everyday lives.
