Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle.
With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism. Placing it squarely within the struggles for power between colonized and colonizing peoples, she argues that nationalism must be seen not as an integrated ideology that puts the interest of the nation above all other loyalties, but as a project for collective identity over which many political groups and coalitions have struggled. Ambitious and bold,
Peasant and Nation both draws on monumental archival research in two countries and enters into spirited dialogue with the literatures of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and peasant studies.
Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Political History from Below: Hegemony,
the State, and Nationalist Discourses
PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS,
AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA
NORTE DE PUEBLA
2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives,
and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867
3 The Conflictual Construction of Community:
Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony
4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic
Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation
PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST
DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU
5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political
Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation,
and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos
6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance,
State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the
Nation in Junin
7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative
Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies
and Limiting Cases
PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE
CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE
8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political
Cultures, Repression, and the Failure
of Hegemony
9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and
Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals,
Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in
National Politics
10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in
Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of
Community and Popular Culture
Notes
Index
Sobre el autor
Florencia E. Mallon is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of The Defense of Community in Peru’s Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 (1983) and the coeditor of Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World-System in Africa and Latin America (1992).
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