Latin American PeasantsTom Brass The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies on peasant economy and rural labour, the historical and contemporary nature of peasant/state relations, debates over Amazonian peasantries, forms taken by local/regional/national peasant ideology/agency, and political disputes over agrarian reform. Land still remains on the agenda of most Latin American peasants, who continue to be politically active, not just in Chiapas (Mexico), nor in ways stipulated by post-modern, post-colonial and post-development theory. |
Contents
A Troubled Past an Uncertain Future | 41 |
Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon | 83 |
The Impact of Neoliberal Economics on Peruvian Peasant Agriculture in the 1990s | 131 |
Whither O Campesinato? Historical Peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia | 162 |
The Chilean Peasantry During the Twentieth Century | 190 |
The Politics of Community and Ethnicity in Highland Bolivia | 228 |
Class Gender and Resistance | 270 |
Representing the Peasantry? Struggles forabout Land in Brazil | 300 |
On Which Side of What Barricade? Subaltern Resistance in Latin America and Elsewhere | 336 |
Abstracts | 400 |
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