CONTENTS
Letter from the Editor 6
Histagra – Research Group on the Agrarian and Political History of the Rural World, University of Santiago De Compostela, Spain: Introduction: Conflict in the Contemporary Rural World. New Interpretations of an old Problem 7
Carlos Humberto Durand Alcántara: Hegemony, the Agrarian Problem and Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: A Legal Perspective 26
Cristian Ferrer González: Popular Empowerment, Peasant Struggles and Political Change: Southern Catalonia under Late Francoism (1968–1976) 39
David Soto Fernández : Community, Institutions and Environment in Conflicts over Commons in Galicia, Northwest Spain (18th – 20th Centuries) 58
Domenico Perrotta and Devi Sacchetto: Migrant Farmworkers in Southern Italy: Ghettoes, Caporalato and Collective Action 75
Édouard Lynch: The Fight against Multiple Professional Land Holdings: A New Agrarian Issue during France’s “Silent Revolution” (1950–1970) 99
Eric Vanhaute: Globalizing Local Struggles – Localizing Global Struggles. Peasant Movements from Local to Global Platforms and Back 114
Héctor J. Martínez Covaleda: Peasants and the Revolution of 1781 in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Colombia) 130
María Candelaria Fuentes Navarro: The Spanish Communist Party and the Andalusian Countryside: Rural Mobilisation and Social Empowerment (1956–1979) 153
Massimo Asta: Between “Resistance” to the War and Social Conflict. Revolts and “Peasant Republics” in Southern Italy, 1943–1945 165
Niccolò Mignemi: Peasant Cooperatives and Land Occupations in the Sicilian Latifundium (1944–1950) 178
Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha: Land Conflicts in Formosa, Argentina (1884–1958) 195
Pedro Gabriel Silva: Political Opportunity and Collective Mobilization in Postrevolutionary Portugal – The Case of a Socio-Environmental Conflict in the Portuguese Inland (1974–1980) 210
Authors 226
Abstracts 231