Pablo Lapegna
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190215132
- eISBN:
- 9780190215170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190215132.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of ...
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Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of neoliberalization, and the pervasiveness of patronage politics. Drawing from the life histories of two peasant women, the chapter reviews the economy and politics of the province as seen from the points of view of peasants and their organizations, introducing the rural communities analysed in the ensuing chapters. While chapters 3, 4, and 5 delve into events of contentious mobilization and processes of demobilization throughout a decade (2003–2013), this chapter serves as a broader historical canvas to situate that decade within a longer history of peasant struggles and cotton production in northern Argentina, covering the period between the 1970s (including the military government) and the 2000s.Less
Chapter 2 zooms in on the province of Formosa, in the north of Argentina, to reconstruct the history of peasant organizations (particularly the Peasant Leagues), the local impacts of neoliberalization, and the pervasiveness of patronage politics. Drawing from the life histories of two peasant women, the chapter reviews the economy and politics of the province as seen from the points of view of peasants and their organizations, introducing the rural communities analysed in the ensuing chapters. While chapters 3, 4, and 5 delve into events of contentious mobilization and processes of demobilization throughout a decade (2003–2013), this chapter serves as a broader historical canvas to situate that decade within a longer history of peasant struggles and cotton production in northern Argentina, covering the period between the 1970s (including the military government) and the 2000s.
