AHA Session 40
Thursday, January 4, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Franciscan B (Hilton Union Square, Ballroom)
Chair:
Juan Manuel Rubio, Princeton University
Papers:
Comment:
Javier Puente, Smith College
Session Abstract
This panel examines diverse forms of resistance and reconstruction at the community level in the Peruvian Andes. Whereas responding to state and non-state violence, challenging the power of mining companies, or reforming educational policy, Andean communities have crafted innovative ways of articulating politically, managing intra- and inter-community conflict, and gathering consensus through democratic means. By revisiting the ‘communal hegemony’ notion by Florencia Mallon, this panel will reflect on what a communal perspective means against a backdrop of historiographies that favor urban and state-centric sources. It will also interrogate how bottom-up approaches can redefine our understanding of democracy, community governance, Indigenous peasant politics, environmental change, and cultural transformation. Finally, the panel will discuss how these communities reconstruct their institutional legitimacy and leadership efficacy by building communal consensus amidst violent conflict, authoritarian policy, climate change, and mining extractivism.
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