Mexican villagers endured three decades of dispossession during the late nineteenth-century dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1880, 1884–1911). The transfer of most lands held by communities known as pueblos led many rural people to join the Mexican revolution of 1910–1917, and it helped to structure the postrevolutionary politics. Using E. P. Thompson's concept of “community,” this article suggests that villagers' sense of solidarity formed by their shared lives within the pueblos, and leavened by collective experiences during the Díaz dictatorship and revolution, helped them to forge a new identity as campesinos with an inherent right to land reform during the postrevolutionary era. A core component of campesino identity was opposition to hacienda owners. This opposition set up a struggle over land during the 1920s and 1930s that led some landowners to “weaponize nature” by destroying natural resources such as forests rather than turning it over to villagers through the land reform.
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The Ecology of Class
Revolution, Weaponized Nature, and the Making of Campesino Consciousness
Christopher R. Boyer
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 40–53
Queering Virginity
From Unruly Girls to Effeminate Boys
Eftihia Mihelakis
) rather than the ontological (or essentialized) question of virginity” (192). They succeed in shedding light on representations of “unruly women” (199) such as Catalina de Erauso (1592–1650), soldaderas (female soldiers) of the Mexican Revolution (1910
State and Warfare in Mexico
The Case of Ayotzinapa
Alessandro Zagato
most egalitarian reforms, education and land, which were brought about by the Mexican Revolution and which the current government is vigorously trying to obliterate in favor of a neo-liberal model. 1 But what economic, strategic, or political rewards
The Concept of Sentimental Boyhood
The Emotional Education of Boys in Mexico during the Early Porfiriato, 1876–1884
Carlos Zúñiga Nieto
programs in schools after the Mexican Revolution (1917–1925) and the debates in the capital over rural education legislation in the twentieth century ( Albarrán 2015 ; Blum 2009 ; Schell 2004 ). However, historical literature remains committed to an
Empowering or impoverishing through credit
Small-scale producers and the Plan Chontalpa in Tabasco, Mexico
Gisela Lanzas and Matthew Whittle
Tabasco: numerous farmers were illegally selling their community-controlled landholdings, or ejido land. This type of landholding derived from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 ( McMichael 2004: 141 ). They were usually created from expropriated lands from
Bret Gustafson, Francesco Carpanini, Martin Kalb, James Giblin, Sarah Besky, Patrick Gallagher, Andrew Curley, Jen Gobby, and Ryan Anderson
of Yucatán from 1847 to 1901, the agrarian reform of the Mexican Revolution, the rise of the tourist development complex in the 1970s, and the emergence of the “nature industry” in the late twentieth century. As a result, Indigenous Maya people have
Processes of Territorialization in Mexico
Indigenous Government, Violence, and Comunalidad
Philipp Wolfesberger
shaped rural territory since the Mexican revolution ( Kelly et al. 2010 ). After a public narrative of acculturation and assimilation of indigenous communities, creating the artificial national mestizo identity, the multicultural nation was finally
