'Rondas campesinas': Peasant justice in a Peruvian village. Starn, O. R. Ph.D. Thesis, Ann Arbor, United States, 1989. !['Rondas campesinas': Peasant justice in a Peruvian village [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex New peasant organizations called rondas campesinas have taken root across the mountains of northern Peru over the last ten years. Beginning as vigilante patrols against stock rustling, the rondas have grown into a wide-ranging alternative justice system that arbitrates conflicts from wife-beating to land disputes. Rondas now operate in more than 1,000 mountain communities. They have become a rallying symbol for peasants. Based on thirteen months of field research in a northern village, this dissertation provides the first full-length study of the rondas campesinas. The rapid rise of the grassroots justice groups, it contends, reflected longstanding discontent among rural people with the corruption and indifference of Peru's formal legal system. With the rondas, peasants sought to reclaim power over their local affairs from the authorities and to reconstitute it in a community-managed organization. Internal divisions and repression by the government created constant problems for the ronda movement. But peasants were still able to improvise an original way of making justice through a synthesis of official legal protocol, harsh disciplinary procedures from the now abolished haciendas, and their sense of their own Andean traditions. As Peru approached the 1990s, the homegrown rondas not only provided northern peasants with an alternative to the maladministration of the government, but also a measure of autonomy and stability that led them to resist the call for violent revolution from the growing Shining Path guerrilla insurgency. The overarching purpose of the dissertation is to build respect for the initiative of modern peasants. Cutting against the ingrained tendency of Western analysts to depict rural experience as determined by the city-based forces of modernity, it uses the rondas to illustrate how small farmers articulate new forms of identity against a background of material hardship and increasing global interconnection. The urban First World, as the rondas demonstrate, has no monopoly on innovation. In the peripheries of the periphery, people are also formulating fragile orders of difference and possibility.
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title = {'{Rondas} campesinas': {Peasant} justice in a {Peruvian} village},
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abstract = {New peasant organizations called rondas campesinas have taken root across the mountains of northern Peru over the last ten years. Beginning as vigilante patrols against stock rustling, the rondas have grown into a wide-ranging alternative justice system that arbitrates conflicts from wife-beating to land disputes. Rondas now operate in more than 1,000 mountain communities. They have become a rallying symbol for peasants.
Based on thirteen months of field research in a northern village, this dissertation provides the first full-length study of the rondas campesinas. The rapid rise of the grassroots justice groups, it contends, reflected longstanding discontent among rural people with the corruption and indifference of Peru's formal legal system. With the rondas, peasants sought to reclaim power over their local affairs from the authorities and to reconstitute it in a community-managed organization. Internal divisions and repression by the government created constant problems for the ronda movement. But peasants were still able to improvise an original way of making justice through a synthesis of official legal protocol, harsh disciplinary procedures from the now abolished haciendas, and their sense of their own Andean traditions. As Peru approached the 1990s, the homegrown rondas not only provided northern peasants with an alternative to the maladministration of the government, but also a measure of autonomy and stability that led them to resist the call for violent revolution from the growing Shining Path guerrilla insurgency.
The overarching purpose of the dissertation is to build respect for the initiative of modern peasants. Cutting against the ingrained tendency of Western analysts to depict rural experience as determined by the city-based forces of modernity, it uses the rondas to illustrate how small farmers articulate new forms of identity against a background of material hardship and increasing global interconnection. The urban First World, as the rondas demonstrate, has no monopoly on innovation. In the peripheries of the periphery, people are also formulating fragile orders of difference and possibility.},
language = {Anglais},
urldate = {2017-07-21},
author = {Starn, Orin R.},
year = {1989},
keywords = {Social sciences, justice},
}
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