Contradictions of community: capitalist relations in highland Peru

TY - JOUR

T1 - Contradictions of community

T2 - capitalist relations in highland Peru

AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg

PY - 2020/1/2

Y1 - 2020/1/2

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

SN - 0225-5189

JO - Canadian Journal of Development Studies

JF - Canadian Journal of Development Studies

ER -