Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
This project analyzes the relationship between land privatization and violence in societies that previously employed non-capitalist land tenure systems. Exploring the cases of the Dakota in Minnesota, the Acholi in Northern Uganda, and indigenous communities in southern Mexico, I examine how the state forcibly incorporated collective land systems into capitalism through a combination of physical, structural, and intra-community violences. This results in the disintegration of previous means of agricultural production and the accompanying community-based cultural systems. Communities resist this process, however, as they battle for natural resource sovereignty and sustainable peace in their homelands.
Recommended Citation
Kligerman, Nicole S., "The Violences of Capitalism: Privatization and Land Tenure in Uganda, Minnesota, and Mexico" (2010). Latin American Studies Honors Projects. 4.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/lashonors/4
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