“Una pata en la chacra y una en el mercado”. La reconfiguración de la economía campesina en La Paz

Abstract

The article broaches some of the main transformations of the peasant economies in Bolivia during the last years of the “proceso de cambio”. We argue that peasant economies have undergone a complex array of changes, such as the penetration of peasant organizations into the networks of commercial transportation and the urban markets outlining specific peasant modalities of access and control of strategic economic domains. Such transformations call into question the established narrative of a gradual erosion of the peasant surplus and go further than the state policies aimed at reshaping the countryside.

Keywords

• markets
• peasant economy
• multi-activity
• peasant organizations