Land grabbing, legal contention and institutional change in Colombia

IF 4.4 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Peasant Studies Pub Date : 2015-03-16 DOI:10.1080/03066150.2014.992883

Jacobo Grajales

引用次数: 60

Abstract

The entanglement of violence and legal institutions in Colombia has led some scholars to argue that this country is characterized by a ‘law without state’, or that the law has a mere ‘symbolic function’. This would explain an apparent paradox: high-intensity violence has been accompanied by the preservation of legal institutions and a common belief in their social importance. Yet the mobilization of the legal repertoire against violent land grabbing by peasant movements shows their belief in the legitimacy of legal institutions. Instead of measuring the efficiency of these actions, this paper will analyse the interaction between local orders and national legal institutions. This study argues that legal arenas have served to address land conflict, in a context of egregious violence. With their own dynamics and rules, they have not completely disrupted the logics of violent dispossession, yet they have defined land not only as an object of business transactions but also as an issue of human rights and collective identities.

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哥伦比亚的土地掠夺、法律纠纷和制度变革

哥伦比亚的暴力和法律制度纠缠在一起，导致一些学者认为，这个国家的特点是“没有国家的法律”，或者法律仅仅具有“象征性功能”。这可以解释一个明显的悖论:伴随着高度暴力的是法律制度的保存和对其社会重要性的普遍信念。然而，动员法律力量反对农民运动的暴力土地掠夺，表明他们相信法律制度的合法性。本文将分析地方秩序与国家法律制度之间的相互作用，而不是衡量这些行动的效率。本研究认为，在严重暴力的背景下，法律领域有助于解决土地冲突。他们有自己的动力和规则，并没有完全打破暴力剥夺的逻辑，但他们不仅将土地定义为商业交易的对象，而且还将其定义为人权和集体身份的问题。

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Journal of Peasant Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

10.50

自引率

17.60%

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期刊介绍： A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.