Territorialidades campesinas: Los "puestos" en el oeste de La Pampa (Argentina)

Abstract

In contemporary Argentina, the new capitalist expansion spaces "edge" threatens the ability of peasant reproduction. The article inquires about the peasant territoriality based on two case studies located in the west of La Pampa. Material and symbolic elements of the territorial configuration of the "stalls" are analyzed, focusing the material conditions of existence, the internal organization and distribution patterns of rural settlements of La Humada and Chos Malal. It also addresses how it affects the rural territorial dynamics the recent expansion of capital through the fencing and grazing spaces which are emerging in contexts territorialities capitalist advance. Thus, from a diachronic perspective and qualitative methodology, changes and continuities in the configuration of the peasants put in the context of emerging conflicts arise.