... post-emancipation trajectories family memory survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...

... inserted themselves into the rural world. The chapter shows that living in these communities was important to the survival of freed people after abolition. The family ties that were formed with difficulty through long lives in slavery formed the base upon which the ex-slaves were able to remake their lives...

... growing more common across Peru’s Andean region during this period. He composed legal documents for indigenous peasants and helped them acquire formal status for their rural communities. He was elected as the personero legal (legal representative) for Concepción, and local hacendados tried to annul his...

... corporations ( paraestatales ) were created in Michoacán (PROFORMICH), Chihuahua (PROFORTARH), and elsewhere to purchase timber from rural communities and provide technical assistance, but these artifacts state forestry soon became mired in bureaucracy and corruption, not to mention problems deriving from...

... that it was not the collapse of state forestry, but rather the generations of social forestry that allowed rural communities to avoid a tragedy of the commons and begin using the forests for their own benefit, a dynamic exemplified by the community of Cherán, Michoacán. Cherán Michoacán narcotrafficking neoliberalism...

... post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban labor migration ...

... Shifting from urban metropole to rural hinterland, chapter 2 resituates the social meaning of Indigenous education in the context of escalating legal battles between Aymara communities and the oligarchic state over communal landholding rights. Borrowing the ethnographic concept of “situated...

... survival Recôncavo sugar plantations rural community rural and urban labor migration ...

... This chapter takes up the narrativization of labor, as a form of the reorganization and transformation of rural society. How does labor—in its many rural forms—become the standard against which all social and village activity is measured? The collectization of labor under rural cooperatives...

... War II Notwithstanding the increasing industrialization of the timber sector, some efforts persisted to use small-scale, community forestry as a means to develop the economy of rural Mexico. In Chihuahua, the National Indigenist Institute ( Instituto Nacional Indigenista , or INI) established...

...Building the Road They’re Walking Part V, “Building the Road They're Walking,” examines how women are striving to safeguard their gains. Interviewees are candid about the fact that key political offices carry great symbolic weight. However, cultural norms persist, particularly within rural...

... In chapter four, Shankar excavates the racialized global politics of Sahaayaka's founder Ramaswamy's raced, casteized, and classed ideologies undergirding his need to frequently visit rural schools. In turn, Shankar deploys the Freirian framework of “fatal pragmatism” to show how Ramaswmay's...

... conditions. Forests emerged as important sites of social contention after the revolution, as land reform and economic nationalism began to deliver the woods to rural communities. Land reform sparked a strong agrarian movement in Michoacán and a nascent labor movement in Chihuahua, both of which echoed...

... conditions. Forests emerged as important sites of social contention after the revolution, as land reform and economic nationalism began to deliver the woods to rural communities. Land reform sparked a strong agrarian movement in Michoacán and a nascent labor movement in Chihuahua, both of which echoed...