Resistance to Change' and Radical Peasant Mobilization

Foster and Erasmus Reconsidered

Bibliographic Data

ID2498189
AuthorsGerrit Huizer (International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume29
Issue4
Pages303-313
Publication date1970-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.29.4.rn482x55m53940x7
OpenAlexW2068010683
LanguageEN
Citations received12

While the literature on peasants in Eastern Europe has at times emphasized the "almost innate rebelliousness of the peasants," scholars concerned with the possibilities for rural development in Latin America have, on the whole, given little attention to the dynamic revolutionary potentialities of the peasantry. On the contrary, they have often deemphasized these aspects while stressing various forms of "resistance to change" by traditional peasants. Foster's "image of the limited good" and Erasmus' "encogido syndrome" are among the concepts that have become fashionable in characterizing the conservatism of Latin American peasants

Conservatism · Development economics · Economics · Erasmus · Latin Americans · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · The Renaissance · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Law

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