Contradictions of community: capitalist relations in highland Peru
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Contradictions of community : capitalist relations in highland Peru. / Rasmussen, Mattias Borg.
In: Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2020, p. 74-91.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Contradictions of community
T2 - capitalist relations in highland Peru
AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Peru’s peasant communities (comunidades campesinas) are collectivities organised around common land tenure. By tracing the development in organisation in a particular peasant community in highland Ancash, this article argues that the communally owned businesses were fundamental to the success of the community in its struggle to consolidate itself, and in the recovery of its ancestral lands. I explore emergent arenas of social struggle, arguing that these pivot around tensions between agrarian and non-agrarian business activities, the use of human and natural resources and, ultimately, local definitions of peasant identities, no longer rooted in agro-pastoral practices.
AB - Peru’s peasant communities (comunidades campesinas) are collectivities organised around common land tenure. By tracing the development in organisation in a particular peasant community in highland Ancash, this article argues that the communally owned businesses were fundamental to the success of the community in its struggle to consolidate itself, and in the recovery of its ancestral lands. I explore emergent arenas of social struggle, arguing that these pivot around tensions between agrarian and non-agrarian business activities, the use of human and natural resources and, ultimately, local definitions of peasant identities, no longer rooted in agro-pastoral practices.
KW - Andes
KW - aspirations
KW - development
KW - institutions
KW - Social change
U2 - 10.1080/02255189.2020.1691980
DO - 10.1080/02255189.2020.1691980
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85074330593
VL - 41
SP - 74
EP - 91
JO - Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement
JF - Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement
SN - 0225-5189
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 231411960