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Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform by Enrique Mayer, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt; Sonia Saldívar-Hull is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform" reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic programme of land expropriation. Seized land was turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members organized to dismantle them and distribute the land among themselves. In 1995-96, as the agrarian reform process was winding down and neoliberal policies were undoing leftist reforms, the Peruvian anthropologist Enrique Mayer travelled throughout the country, interviewing people who had lived through the most tumultuous years of agrarian reform, recording their memories and their stories. While agrarian reform caused enormous upheaval, controversy, and disappointment, it did succeed in breaking up the unjust and oppressive hacienda system. Mayer contends that the demise of that system is comparable in importance to the liberation of slaves in the Americas. Mayer interviewed ex-landlords, land expropriators, pol

Who reads Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform?

Author

Enrique Mayer, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt; Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Publisher

Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822390718

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Anthropology