This study is about the social movements of Latin America through which they were located in Peru, after his experience in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) the author (Slater) introduces us to development studies from radical geography, it is the exploration of the power of peasant social movements, contrary to what most social scientists studied as labor movements from central countries. Having a postcolonial position from radical geography, it also explores the territorialities of the wage earners of the coastal cities and of the regional peasant movements of the interior of Peru, studying the contradictions of capital and wage labor and registering the non-wage labor that existed before the agrarian reform of the military government of Velasco Alvarado. I also record the “other” non-capitalist forms of production that persisted as alternative territorialities based on democracy, citizen p...

He procurado explicar, en otra parte, por qué la geografía del desarrollo contemporáneo está subdesarrollada. Aunque éste no parece ser el lugar adecuado para entrar en una detallada explicación, son pertinentes, sin embargo, algunos comentarios. Así, para ser conciso, deseo argüir que las deficiencias esenciales de la geografía del sub-desarrollo están basadas en una serie de aseveraciones falaces.