La modernidad esquiva: debates políticos e intelectuales sobre la reforma agraria en Bolivia (1935-1952)
Abstract
El artículo explora los debates, propuestas y proyectos políticos que circularon en torno a la reforma agraria entre la guerra del Chaco (1932-1935) y la Revolución de 1952. Aunque el término fue muy común y ampliamente utilizado entre los intelectuales de la época, sus significados y connotaciones no fueron los mismos. Este artículo explora estas múltiples lecturas, no carentes de ambigüedades, con las que intelectuales nacionalistas y de izquierda intentaron reconciliar los principios de respeto a la propiedad privada, defendidos por la Constitución, con las crecientes demandas indígenas y campesinas por acceso y restitución de sus tierras, todo en el marco de sus propios proyectos e imaginarios de modernidad y desarrollo.
This paper examines the proposals, intellectual debates and political par-ties projects around the question on Agrarian Reform between the Chaco War (1932-1935) and the 1952 National Revolution. Although the term "agrarian reform" became very common and widely used at that time, its meanings were significantly different. This work explores those different and sometimes-ambiguous meanings in which left and nationalist parties attempted to conciliate the principles of private property protected by the Constitution with the increasing peasants and indigenous demands for ac-cess and restitution of their lands; and frame both within their own images of modernity and development.
This paper examines the proposals, intellectual debates and political par-ties projects around the question on Agrarian Reform between the Chaco War (1932-1935) and the 1952 National Revolution. Although the term "agrarian reform" became very common and widely used at that time, its meanings were significantly different. This work explores those different and sometimes-ambiguous meanings in which left and nationalist parties attempted to conciliate the principles of private property protected by the Constitution with the increasing peasants and indigenous demands for ac-cess and restitution of their lands; and frame both within their own images of modernity and development.
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