Viva La Revolución? Reassessing Hobsbawm on peasants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2361028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Bra (0000-0002-8565-2416, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Tom Brass (University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 244-261 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x17711231 |
| OpenAlex | W2620641093 |
| Language | CA |
| References cited | 22 |
Examined critically here are the writings by Hobsbawm on peasants in Latin America. Eschewing participant/observation, his analyses missed crucial aspects of rural society in Peru during the pre-reform era, a consequence being the mistaken belief that production relations on latifundia were obstacles to economic growth and would therefore vanish once landlords were expropriated. Because they are compatible with capitalist development, however, these same unfree work arrangements continued into the post-reform era, but used now by rich peasant beneficiaries of the agrarian reform programmes carried out by the state
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Art · Economic history · Humanities · Latin Americans · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Relations of production · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Politics and Society in Latin America
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| Highly cited | No |