Agrarian reform against settler colonialism in Latin America: Joanna Crow, ‘Indigeneity, Land and Property’, in Joanna Crow, Itinerant Ideas, Palgrave, 2022, pp. 69-100 | settler colonial studies blog

Agrarian reform against settler colonialism in Latin America: Joanna Crow, ‘Indigeneity, Land and Property’, in Joanna Crow, Itinerant Ideas, Palgrave, 2022, pp. 69-100

15Sep22

Abstract: This Chapter focuses on the question of land ownership. After exploring Chilean-Peruvian intellectual and artistic exchanges (via Mexico) about the urgency of agrarian reform in defence of indigenous communities in the 1920s and 1930s, this chapter shows how successive governments in both countries proceeded to reduce indigenous land tenure over the course of the first half of the twentieth century. It then explores the transnational aspects of the violent cyclical history of dispossession, indigenous rebellion (against dispossession), and state repression (of rebellion) from the 1910s through 1930s. Finally, it shows how indigenous intellectuals in both countries made it clear that their problems with landowners and the state were not just about the economic worth of land.

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