Forestry conflict in Spain: Rethinking peasant protest and resistance

This article examines forestry conflict in the Spanish province of León and the struggle between village communities and the state over the control of common lands and forests. One of this article's conclusions is that forestry conflict reflected, on the one hand, the struggle for economic cont...

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Published inJournal of agrarian change Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 579 - 595
Main Author Serrano‐Álvarez, José A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2019
Subjects
Common lands
commons
Conflict
Economics
Environmentalism
Forestry
forestry conflicts
Market economies
Moral economy
peasant protest
Peasants
Resistance
Rural areas
rural struggles
Values
Weapons
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Summary:This article examines forestry conflict in the Spanish province of León and the struggle between village communities and the state over the control of common lands and forests. One of this article's conclusions is that forestry conflict reflected, on the one hand, the struggle for economic control not only between the peasants and the state but also between the peasants themselves and, on the other hand, the clash between the market economy championed by the state and the traditional arrangements, values, and solidarities defended by the peasants. Another conclusion is that widely used concepts such as “weapons of the weak” or “environmentalism of the poor” are deemed inadequate regarding the peasant protest and resistance analysed here, which in turn calls for a definition of these new forms of rural resistance or a reformulation of those already in use.
ISSN:1471-0358
1471-0366
DOI:10.1111/joac.12293