Crisis and Agrarian Protest in Argentina
The Movimiento Mujeres Agropecuarias en Lucha
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5089848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norma Giarracca (Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, Rural Development Group of the Latin American Social Science Council), Miguel Teubal (Universidad de Buenos Aires) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 38-53 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x0102800604 |
| OpenAlex | W2088989704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Movimiento Mujeres Agropecuarias en Lucha (Agricultural Women in Struggle Movement-MML) is an agrarian movement led by women that emerged in Argentina in the mid-1990s (Giarracca and Teubal, 1997). Developing in a region noted for grain and cattle exports that borders the rich pampas, the movement emerged from the spontaneous actions of a group of farmers against the banks' auctioning of their land and agricultural machinery to collect their debts. Lucy de Comelis, the wife of an indebted farmer, convinced that her family's debt was unjust, sent out a radio message calling for a meeting with other farmers who were in a similar situation, and those who responded to her message were women. These women stopped the auctioning of her property and that of many others with prayers and song and by persuading the potential buyers of its injustice. Since their first action in September 1995, the women have organized themselves on a national level and introduced the issue of debt and the potential disappearance of Argentina's small and medium-sized agricultural producers into the national political dis
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Business · Debt · Economics · Economy · Geography · Injustice · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Wife · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Finance · Law
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |