Claiming the land: Take-overs by villagers in the Philippines with comparisons to Indonesia, Peru, Portugal, and Russia
Title:
Claiming the land: Take-overs by villagers in the Philippines with comparisons to Indonesia, Peru, Portugal, and Russia
Author:
Kerkvliet, J. Tria
Appeared in:
The journal of peasant studies
Paging:
Volume 20 (1993) nr. 3 pages 459-493
Year:
1993-04
Contents:
Taking advantage of the tumultuous national political conditions during the mid and late 1980s, Filipino villagers launched a wave of land occupations, trying to realize ideas that they rarely dared to express during normal political conditions. This situation is similar to that of land seizures in Russia (1905-18), Peru (1960s), Portugal (1974-75), and Indonesia (1963-65). Other similarities are that villagers had ideas significantly at odds with the elite-domianted order about how land should be used and by whom, a common thread being that priority should go to those most in need of a livelihood; resistance comes first at the level of ideas and in small, unobtrusive ways; and agicultural workers and peasants mobilized in considerable measure on their own.
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