Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-561-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Dislocations

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binford, Leigh

Gill, Lesley

Striffler, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Lesley Gill, Leigh Binford and Steve Striffler

Chapter 1. The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Aaron Kappeler

Chapter 2. Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s Countryside

Steve Striffler

Chapter 3. At the Crossroads of Power

Lesley Gill

Chapter 4. The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador

Leigh Binford

Chapter 5. Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico

Casey Walsh

Chapter 6. Peasant Wars in Brazil

Cliff Welch

Chapter 7. Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia

Forrest Hylton

Afterword: Reflection: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today

Gavin Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gill, Lesley
Lesley Gill teaches anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of A Century of Violence in a Red City (2016, Duke University Press) and The School of the Americas (2004, Duke University Press).

Binford, Leigh
Leigh Binford is Professor Emeritus of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He writes on rural social economies, international migration and struggle in Mexico and El Salvador. His recent publications include (with Scott Cook) Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism (2013, University of Texas Press).

Striffler, Steve
Steve Striffler is the Director of the Labor Resource Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.  He writes on labor and the left in Latin America and the United States.   His latest book is Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights (2019, Pluto Press).

Leigh Binford is Professor Emeritus of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He writes on rural social economies, international migration and struggle in Mexico and El Salvador. His recent publications include (with Scott Cook) Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism (2013, University of Texas Press).