After servitude

Bonded histories and the encumbrances of exchange in indigenizing Bolivia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2157258
AutoresMareike Winchell (0000-0002-9982-7969, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen45
Número2
Páginas453-473
Fecha de publicación2018-02-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2016.1229309
OpenAlexW2530377695
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas45

Since 2006, Bolivia has undertaken a dramatic program of state reform aimed at overcoming the injustices of the nation's colonial and neoliberal past. In the process, rural practices and sensibilities originating in the former hacienda system have assumed new importance, arising as volatile sites of state intervention and political critique. Like eighteenth-century Bourbon administrators, state reformers today express concern with agrarian patronage, which, they argue, facilitates continued land dispossession and reproduces a particularly servile Quechua-speaking peasantry. Yet, despite reform efforts, hacienda-based ties remain crucial to rural life, structuring acts of redistributive exchange and providing a relational medium by which former landlords attempt to make amends for past violence. By taking seriously the moral and political dimensions of post-hacienda patronage, this contribution challenges dominant frameworks of indigenous justice to foreground the reconciliatory possibilities of exchange relations rooted in a bonded past

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Economic Justice · Indigenous · Kinship · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restitution · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America