Community, Comunidad, Collectives and Neoliberal Political Decentralization in Peru
Keywords:
Peasants, community, Peru, economic practices, state restructuring, neoliberalismAbstract
Community building is both derided as the product
of neoliberal regionalization and extolled as its alternative. The
Peruvian community of Allpachico demonstrates that these two
facets are linked. I show how forms of association have adapted
to changing economic patterns over the past 100 years. Thus,
the comunidad campesina, established to support small-scale
agriculture, now offers unpaid peasant labour to state projects
that both sustain cheap wage rates and produce infrastructure
of prime interest to migrants. However, these projects also en
sure the ongoing viability of the community, which relies on
complex relationships between peasants, pensioners and mi
grant workers.
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