Abstract

BENDINI, Mónica-Isabel  and  STEIMBREGER, Norma-Graciela. Peasant persistence in northern Patagonia: spatial mobilities and changes in the social organization of work. Cuad. Desarro. Rural [online]. 2011, vol.8, n.66, pp.125-151. ISSN 0122-1450.

In a context of territorial expansion of the capital, the paper deals with the persistence of peasant farmers in northern Patagonia by developing various adaptive strategies as a form of resistance to expulsion. Changes are examined not only in households but also in the areas of life and work of those who call themselves breeding producers "crianceros" in two regions of extensive herd-oriented export of wool and hair, mohair. The cases show that the territorial expansion of capital involves social dynamics that go beyond production and institutional transformations; they show increase of multi activity in peasant households. Spatial mobility due to production and labor is more complex, and also generates changes in other levels of rurality, in rural habitat, and the enlarge of rural towns. These social settings lead to rethinking territory and understand the changes and continuities from and between the positions of the actors that contribute to maintain or transform the structure of social space.

Keywords : expansion of capital; spatial mobility; persistence strategies; breeders; Northern Patagonia; sociodemographic dynamics; capital growth; territorial mobility; social spaces; rural organizations; peasantry decompositio.

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