The agrarian historiography of Chile

Foundational interpretations, conventional reiterations, and critical revisionism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5818973
AutoresClaudio Robles‐ortiz (0000-0003-3041-7838, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Data de publicação2020-04-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistoria Agraria Revista de agricultura e historia rural (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1139-1472 • E-ISSN: 2340-3659
EditoraHistoria Agraria (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26882/histagrar.081e04r
OpenAlexW3015817015
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas19

This article examines the development of Chilean agrarian historiography in the last four decades, by means of an introductory overview organized as a chronological reconstruction. It selectively focuses on relevant authors and works, the problems and questions they addressed, their main arguments and contributions, as well as their flaws and limitations. In doing so, the article constructs debates that never took place, because development of this field has been limited by the scarcity of specialized works, the different contexts in which they were produced, and the lack of institutional spaces for systematic debate. Agrarian historiography has only recently become a distinctive discipline in Chile and is therefore an incipient field. In the last fifteen years, a new revisionist agrarian historiography has begun to revitalize the study of Chilean rural history through critical dialogue with foundational interpretations from the 1970s, leaving behind the conventional reiterations of the 1980s

Historiography · Scarcity · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America