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Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura
Print version ISSN 0120-2456
Abstract
ACEVEDO RUIZ, MARÍA JOSÉ and YIE GARZON, SORAYA MAITE. We Owe Ourselves to the Land. El Campesino and the Creation of a Voice for the Fields, 1958-1962. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2016, vol.43, n.1, pp.165-201. ISSN 0120-2456. https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v43n1.55068.
In this paper we analyze the language and contents of the weekly publication, El Campesino, in order to establish how the efforts by the political and ecclesiastical elites of the country influenced the political behavior of the Colombian rural population at the beginning of the National Front (1958-1962). We argue that said effort implied: first, to appeal to different individuals as members of the "Colombian peasant population", in an attempt to mold the voice of this sector as a particular political subject; second, disseminate the narrative according to which the different sectors of the country are interconnected through a chain of moral debts; and, third, make the peasants the object of a triple interpellation (as Christians, Colombian citizens and farmers).
Keywords : hegemony; public sphere; National Front; El Campesino; peasants; interpellation.