peasantness

English

Etymology

peasant +‎ -ness

Noun

peasantness (uncountable)

1. The lifestyle or status of a peasant.
   • 2014, Anna Ahlers, Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China:

     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).

   • 2018, Michael Kearney, Reconceptualizing The Peasantry:

     Ethnicity as a dimension of social identity thus contrasts with peasantness in not being based primarily in the productionist assumptions of the latter term.