The Military Grammar of Agrarian Reform in Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4870930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Javier Puente (0000-0002-7540-9893) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue | 133 |
| Pages | 78-101 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-7160077 |
| OpenAlex | W2910595321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article places the 1969 Peruvian agrarian reform as a defining moment in the history of Latin American militarism and rural capitalism. By unpacking agrarian reform and the rhetorical transformation of indios into campesinos, this article reveals how General Juan Velasco's military government (1968-75) enforced economic, ideological, and social discipline through a seemingly empowering language of revolution. Capitalizing on enduring radical demands for land redistribution, Velasco's military-controlled state co-opted claims for land and social justice promoting a revolutionary message against imperial and oligarchic domination while drawing rural populations into more exploitative social relations. The same social and economic reforms meant to benefit thousands of campesinos through access to land facilitated an unprecedented scenario of rural and agrarian capitalism. Once the military garnered social consent, lands and lives fell under state surveillance, decimating communal autonomies, threatening family subsistence, and unleashing mounting degrees of violence against campesino dissidence and resistance
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Capitalism · Communism · Geography · Ideology · Land reform · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands
Violent Neoliberalism
Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations
The Allure of Labor
Armies and Politics in Latin America
Peru 1890-1977
Incas Sí, Indios No
Argentina's quarter century experiment with neoliberalism
Second Independence, National History and Myth-Making Heroes in the Peruvian Nationalizing State
Mexican Junkers and Capitalist Haciendas, 1810-1910
Land for Those Who Work It
The Peruvian Experiment
Armies and Politics in Latin America
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Emancipatory rural politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |