Agrarian Inequality and Civil War Revisited

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ID5697109
AutoresFrancisco Gutierrez-Sanín (0000-0002-9836-734X, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, autor correspondente), Francisco Gutierrez (0000-0002-5407-940X)
Ano2015
Volume9
Fascículo8
Páginas423-431
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12225
OpenAlexW1845380727
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas53

The paper maps the trajectory of the proposition according to which agrarian inequality is somehow associated with the onset and persistence of civil wars. This proposition was dominant in many disciplines in the 1960s and 1970s but was radically challenged by economic/individualistic interpretations of war, which forced it out from the research agenda. However, it has made a strong comeback, allowing many classical themes to be reconsidered. But the present way of linking agrarian inequality to civil war involves new themes and a more complex political economy of violent conflict, as well as different understandings of the relevant inequalities and of the role of institutions, actors, and space. This, in turn, poses complex research questions and methodological challenges

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Individualism · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy