New Translation: Alejandro Diez Hurtado on Female Land Ownership in Huancavelica 

We are excited to publish the newly translated article by Alejandro Diez Hurtado “Three Utopias of (Absolute) Female Land Ownership. Reflections Based on Peasant Women’s Access to Communal Land in Huancavelica”. Alejandro Diez Hurtado is a professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and holds a PhD from École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (EHESS). His research focuses on critical rural studies, with an emphasis on social conflicts around territory, property, authority and mining, and the political and economic relations of peasant and Indigenous communities, especially coastal and Andean communities in Peru. His article, originally published in 2011 and translated into English for the first time here, discusses peasant women’s access to communal land and points to the limits of a legalism of the state, calling for solutions that involve recognition of the irreducible reality of communal practices.