Farmer Subjectivity and Capital Accumulation in Sonsón, Antioquia: 1997-2020

Abstract

This article has as its central theme the process of peasant subjectivation in Sonson, Antioquia, between 1997 and 2020, within the neoliberal context of capital accumulation. It problematizes the formation of a subaltern subjectivity in the peasantry, appealing to two theories about social relations of power and inequality, both structural and cultural: the concepts of hegemony and subalternity, according to Antonio Gramsci, and that of accumulation by dispossession, as developed by David Harvey. The methodological approach used was qualitative with a mainly ethnographic method, complemented by documentary analysis and review. The research shows that the model of accumulation developed in Sonsón around the avocado agroindustry has implied dispossession relations, internalized by the peasants as a subaltern subjectivity of proletarianization and entrepreneurship.