Hybridity and Change: Gamonales, Montoneros and Young Politicos in South‐Central Peru

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of three historical forms of political subjectivity in South‐Central Peru: the montoneros, the gamonales and the post‐conflict politicos. Based upon a historical sociology of puna–valley relations, the article suggests that subjectivities should be read not as emanating from either side of the racialised misti–Indio divide, but instead as fractals of this.

Displacing Enigma and Shaping Communal Hegemony – Towards the Analysis of Violent Experience as Social Process

“…Hence, while the disengagement of the state from productive practices entrained a process of livelihood diversification among the different household, the post-conflict period led to the creation of new forms of relations between rural communities and state institutions, forcing new questions on to the agendas of communities such as Maco, shaping new political and cultural identities that transcended the racist schemes of the oligarchic period. 50,51 The case of the dynamited mayor encapsulates the conflictual nature of these social and semantic processes. The killing brought into play a variety of community and state institutions.…”

Negotiating Natural Resource Conflicts: A Study of State Practices, Peasant Mobilisation and Sub‐National Government in the Peruvian Andes

“…To make sense of the fluid forms of political contestation and practices of negotiation between peasant community and the state, the article draws from work on the struggle for land in the Andes (Platt, ; Yashar, ; Gill, ; Pajuleo, ; del Pino 2016; De la Cadena 2018), where mobilisation, contestation and negotiation are rooted in historically conditioned forms of doing politics, shaping idioms and practices of rights claims (Niño Murcia and Salomon, 2003; Theidon, ; Rønsbo, ; Pajuleo, ; Del Pino, ; De la Cadena, 2015). The second part, which focuses on participant observation of sub‐national government, is informed by the anthropology of the state literature.…”