In this paper published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Itayosara Rojas Herrera critically examines the sectoral struggles for land by Black Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Peasants.
In her investigation, Rojas Herrera paysit pays particular attention to the ambivalences, dynamics and limitations of sectoral land struggles and the possibilities for overcoming them. It also considers how these land-related concerns are socially differentiated.
The arguments she presents in this paper are the result of two and a half years of fieldwork in the Amazon to study the contemporary land rush and its effects on rural communities in this strategic ecosystem. Her research showed that communities are not passive agents merely affected by the land rush but rather have a significant history of struggles defending their shared land through similar episodes of land rush and boom and bust cycles.
- PhD student
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- Commodity & land rusher and regimes research project
