Presentation of the dossier “Peasantry and agrarian reform in Latin America: social conflict, territory, and environment”

Abstract

Since the last century, Latin America has been the scene of increasingly fierce, bloody, and intricate disputes over control and/or access to rural property. Disputes over land ownership and use have been the driving force behind multiple and tortuous political and social confrontations. These conflicts have also shaped a peasantry that, through various expressions, has resisted, organized, and mobilized around the right to land for those who work it. In this context, this dossier is a contribution from academia to review one of the most critical chapters in the history of our continent, with the aim of insisting on a reflection that addresses one of the worst evils that have plagued postcolonial societies: inequality.