This article argues that there is a transformation in the relationship between land, peasant communities and its members or comuneros. In the case of the communities of the Peruvian northern coast, this transformation links with a double dynamic: (i) the increasing external pressure on the resource from the private-national and transnational capitals, and (ii) the emergence of new means and motivations of access to land among the communal members. Under these circumstances, the communities seek to develop mechanisms of containment that, nevertheless, escape to their own logics of controland imply the risk of a progressive division of shares of the communal territory.In order to demonstrate this, the article examines new uses (and potential uses) of the land that generates more expectations among the comuneros, and new strategies of access to the resource that different actors compete for...

This paper analyzes changes in community governance in the contextof negotiations with a mining company. We focus on three issues:the role played by the community government on the regulation ofcommunity resources and territory, the diverse and complex intereststhat emerge in the presence of mining activity; and, the communityas a political institution confronting external pressures over its land.We develop a study case focusing on the negotiation process betweenthe Michiquillay peasant community and Anglo American MiningCompany in Cajamarca, Peru. This information was obtained doingfieldwork in the community in 2009. In our analysis we observe thatchanges on community resources regulation, its uses and valorization,as well as changes on the balance of power between economicand political actors, have created a greater level of complexity in thecommunity, creating new levels of community ...

El artículo traza las trayectorias que siguieron las empresas asociativas en Puno después de la reforma agraria. Analiza los cambios en la estructura de la tierra a la luz de los procesos de reestructuración agraria y de la formación de nuevas comunidades campesinas. El planteamiento central es que la reforma agraria implementada por el gobierno de Velasco tuvo particularidades que deben ser incorporadas en la lectura de esta como un proceso con variaciones regionales. Asimismo, se sostiene, a partir del análisis y trayectoria de dos grandes empresas asociativas –Picotani y Kunurana–, que el aparato del gobierno velasquista no realizó una lectura adecuada de las distintas lógicas de tenencia de la tierra de las familias campesinas ganaderas, ni de la presión de las comunidades colindantes por los recursos de agua y tierra. La lucha por la tierra, surgida por las expectativas ...

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The present article discusses the way we approach the process of change in rural communities with active presence of extractive industries. As an example, it presents a study about a peasant community from the Peruvian northern coast where a petroleum extraction project is being developed. The case analysis suggests that, in such contexts, different and conflicting patterns of resource, such as land usage, valuation, access and appropriation are configured, leading to a very complex scenario for the decision making process about the future of these resources. The article thus states that categories such as social-environmental management, conflict resolution, and negotiation can lead to a simplified interpretation of reality. In this sense, by presenting some critical issues, it argues the importance of adopting anthropological and sociological approaches in order to consider the...

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The present article discusses the way we approach the process of change in rural communities with active presence of extractive industries. As an example, it presents a study about a peasant community from the Peruvian northern coast where a petroleum extraction project is being developed. The case analysis suggests that, in such contexts, different and conflicting patterns of resource, such as land usage, valuation, access and appropriation are configured, leading to a very complex scenario for the decision making process about the future of these resources. The article thus states that categories such as social-environmental management, conflict resolution, and negotiation can lead to a simplified interpretation of reality. In this sense, by presenting some critical issues, it argues the importance of adopting anthropological and sociological approaches in order to consider the...

The article traces the trajectories followed by associative enterprises after the agrarian reform in Puno. It analyzes the changes in the structure of the land in light of the processes of agrarian restructuring and the formation of new peasant communities. The central argument is that the agrarian reform implemented by the Velasco government had peculiarities that should be incorporated in the reading of it as a process with regional variations. Likewise, it is argued, based on the analysis and history of two large associative companies apparatus did not make an adequate reading of the different land tenure logics of the peasant livestock families, nor of the pressure for water and land resources of the surrounding communities. The struggle for land, which arose from the expectations of thousands of communal families and from a distribution considered unequal, is one of the central...

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This paper analyzes changes in community governance in the contextof negotiations with a mining company. We focus on three issues:the role played by the community government on the regulation ofcommunity resources and territory, the diverse and complex intereststhat emerge in the presence of mining activity; and, the communityas a political institution confronting external pressures over its land.We develop a study case focusing on the negotiation process betweenthe Michiquillay peasant community and Anglo American MiningCompany in Cajamarca, Peru. This information was obtained doingfieldwork in the community in 2009. In our analysis we observe thatchanges on community resources regulation, its uses and valorization,as well as changes on the balance of power between economicand political actors, have created a greater level of complexity in thecommunity, creating new levels of community ...

This article argues that there is a transformation in the relationship between land, peasant communities and its members or comuneros. In the case of the communities of the Peruvian northern coast, this transformation links with a double dynamic: (i) the increasing external pressure on the resource from the private-national and transnational capitals, and (ii) the emergence of new means and motivations of access to land among the communal members. Under these circumstances, the communities seek to develop mechanisms of containment that, nevertheless, escape to their own logics of controland imply the risk of a progressive division of shares of the communal territory.In order to demonstrate this, the article examines new uses (and potential uses) of the land that generates more expectations among the comuneros, and new strategies of access to the resource that different actors compete for...

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This paper analyzes changes in community governance in the contextof negotiations with a mining company. We focus on three issues:the role played by the community government on the regulation ofcommunity resources and territory, the diverse and complex intereststhat emerge in the presence of mining activity; and, the communityas a political institution confronting external pressures over its land.We develop a study case focusing on the negotiation process betweenthe Michiquillay peasant community and Anglo American MiningCompany in Cajamarca, Peru. This information was obtained doingfieldwork in the community in 2009. In our analysis we observe thatchanges on community resources regulation, its uses and valorization,as well as changes on the balance of power between economicand political actors, have created a greater level of complexity in thecommunity, creating new levels of community ...

This article argues that there is a transformation in the relationship between land, peasant communities and its members or comuneros. In the case of the communities of the Peruvian northern coast, this transformation links with a double dynamic: (i) the increasing external pressure on the resource from the private-national and transnational capitals, and (ii) the emergence of new means and motivations of access to land among the communal members. Under these circumstances, the communities seek to develop mechanisms of containment that, nevertheless, escape to their own logics of controland imply the risk of a progressive division of shares of the communal territory.In order to demonstrate this, the article examines new uses (and potential uses) of the land that generates more expectations among the comuneros, and new strategies of access to the resource that different actors compete for...

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The article traces the trajectories followed by associative enterprises after the agrarian reform in Puno. It analyzes the changes in the structure of the land in light of the processes of agrarian restructuring and the formation of new peasant communities. The central argument is that the agrarian reform implemented by the Velasco government had peculiarities that should be incorporated in the reading of it as a process with regional variations. Likewise, it is argued, based on the analysis and history of two large associative companies apparatus did not make an adequate reading of the different land tenure logics of the peasant livestock families, nor of the pressure for water and land resources of the surrounding communities. The struggle for land, which arose from the expectations of thousands of communal families and from a distribution considered unequal, is one of the central...

The present article discusses the way we approach the process of change in rural communities with active presence of extractive industries. As an example, it presents a study about a peasant community from the Peruvian northern coast where a petroleum extraction project is being developed. The case analysis suggests that, in such contexts, different and conflicting patterns of resource, such as land usage, valuation, access and appropriation are configured, leading to a very complex scenario for the decision making process about the future of these resources. The article thus states that categories such as social-environmental management, conflict resolution, and negotiation can lead to a simplified interpretation of reality. In this sense, by presenting some critical issues, it argues the importance of adopting anthropological and sociological approaches in order to consider the...

El artículo analiza las nuevas ocupaciones en tierras comunales del bosque seco de la costa norte peruana, en el contexto del desplazamiento forzado de familias comuneras debido a recientes fenómenos climáticos. Las comunidades del bosque seco tienen una historia que se remonta al siglo xvi y poseen derechos consuetudinarios sobre miles de hectáreas. Sin embargo, en la última década, el avance de empresas agroindustriales sobre estos territorios ha generado nuevas disputas. -- Artículo