070312 UE Methodenkurs - Theorien und Methoden der Globalgeschichte und der Global Studies (2020S)

In this, the lecture class on revolutions in 20c. Latin n accompanying course will focus on one crucial aspect of revolutionary uprisings, the claim for access to land. The masses fought the restructuring of landholding relations in almost every country with social movements. Therefore, land reform often stood in the center of revolutionary changes. On the one hand, the justified complaint was directed against the so-called latifundistas, the landholder's well-established group who considered themselves also the political elite of the former regimes.
On the other hand, la Reforma Agraria, in all cases, supposed that agriculture was the essential source of income, on an individual level, and the country's budget level alike. These two tendencies of one single topic generated double action. Ones intended to improve the social conditions of peasant families, small landholders with diversified agricultural production destined to local markets, and the subsistence of their households. Against the background of traditional extractivist policies, the other tendency represented the agribusiness. Directly on the land and indirectly through the output and application of petrochemical fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides, this group of farmers aligned with the country's goal of mass production for domestic demands and the external market that was pushed by development aid programs representing the goals of the so-called Green Revolution.