Resumen

GOMEZ-HERRERA, A. Geanina  y  VILLALBA, A. Eliza. Associative enterprises against capitalist plunder: the collective production of cattle in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. agric. soc. desarro [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.1, pp.109-137. ISSN 1870-5472.

The expansion of the agricultural and livestock frontier in Santiago del Estero, a province in northwestern Argentina, compromises the social reproduction of peasants without land ownership titles that make communal use of this resource. Facing the evictions promoted by entrepreneurs, the peasant populations of Santa Catalina and El Hoyo decided to enclose the lands of common use and to become associated in productive enterprises, establishing livestock confinements. From these experiences, our objective is to analyze their struggle in facing the stripping of common lands based on tactics of political socialization and the implementation of associative productive enterprises developed in connection with state agents that promote rural development. These experiences are rebuilt through a qualitative methodological approach through in-depth interviews and observations registry. In this study we contribute evidences about the multiple expressions of antagonism in face of the contemporary processes of capitalist confinements of common goods in the rural space. These struggles are manifested both in the political plane and in the design of production systems based on the management of common pool resources under associative organization formats without precedent in the territory.

Palabras llave : state agents; common goods; peasant dispossession; associative management; struggle; occupants.

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