Fuentes Históricas del Perú (FHP) se ha convertido en un recurso imprescindible para la investigación histórica en el país. Esta iniciativa, liderada por estudiantes de universidades peruanas, representa un avance significativo en el proceso más amplio de creación de recursos digitales para la investigación histórica y el desarrollo de las humanidades digitales en Perú. En esta entrevista, realizada a fines de 2023 por Paulo Drinot con Jair Miranda Tamayo, Erika Caballero Liñán y Carlos Paredes Hernández, los tres fundadores de FHP, se ofrece una perspectiva sobre los orígenes de FHP, sus características y sus objetivos.

This essay reviews the following works:

The Circuit of Detachment: Understanding the Fate of a Neoliberal Laboratory. By Kathya Araujo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 80. $22.00 e-book. ISBN: 1009310712.

Hilos tensados: Para leer el octubre chileno. Edited by Kathya Araujo. Santiago: Editorial USACH, 2019. Pp. 476. E-book. ISBN: 9789563034370. Open access at https://editorialusach.cl/producto/hilos-tensados-para-leer-el-octubre-chileno/.

18-O: Una radiografía desde la Academia. Edited by Claudio Espinoza and Luis Campos. Santiago: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, 2020. Pp. 145. Open access at https://issuu.com/universidadacademia/docs/el_18_de_octubre/1.

Chile despertó. Lecturas desde la historia del estallido social de octubre. Edited by Mauricio Folchi. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 2019. Pp. 108. E-book. ISBN: 9789561911659. Open access at https://filosofia.uchile.cl/dam/jcr:c1c55bfb-f142-4415-8b68-15fe01ab1eb0/chile-desperto769-lecturas-desde-la-historia.pdf.

Chile en movimientos. Edited by Karla Henríquez and Geoffrey Pleyers. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2023. Pp. 246. E-book. ISBN: 9789878135625. Open access at https://filosofia.uchile.cl/dam/jcr:c1c55bfb-f142-4415-8b68-15fe01ab1eb0/chile-desperto769-lecturas-desde-la-historia.pdf.

Pensar el malestar: La crisis de octubre y la cuestión constitucional. By Carlos Peña. Santiago: Taurus, 2020. Pp. 340. $36.17 paperback. ISBN: 9789569635403.

Revuelta social y nueva Constitución. By Nelly Richard. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2021. Pp. 68. E-book. ISBN: 9789878130668. Open access at https://www.clacso.org/revuelta-social-y-nueva-constitucion-2/.

Octubre chileno: La irrupción de un nuevo pueblo. By Carlos Ruiz Encina. Santiago: Penguin Random House, 2020. Pp. 117. $10.78 paperback. ISBN: 9789566042259.

Nonviolent resistance against rebels has received increasing scholarly attention over the past decade. Research has explained why and when civilians engage in resistance or place different types of demands on rebels. However, the question of whether nonviolent resistance succeeds or fails to achieve its objectives remains understudied. This article addresses this gap by theorising and testing three key factors that shape rebel responses to civilian resistance: the nature of civilian demands, the power of civilian resisters, and the rebels’ own power. Fieldwork in Colombia’s Caquetá region reveals that FARC rebels accommodated civilian demands only when these did not threaten their strategic goals. The group responded with repression whenever resisters clashed with its politico-military objectives. While unarmed resistance campaigns have successfully overthrown repressive states, there is no evidence for civilians in Colombia or elsewhere managing to push armed groups to make far-reaching concessions, let alone defeat rebels via nonviolent action only.

This article examines the 1 July 1992 massacre of 18 Indigenous males and the concurrent cutting off of the hair of their wives and/or female kin carried out by the Shining Path in the Andean village of Huamanquiquia (Fajardo province, Ayacucho region). Based on first-hand accounts of the Maoist insurgents and the Indigenous women, I frame these events as a local case study of gendered atrocity that was experienced differently by men and women, focusing on the symbolic violence of haircutting. While this atrocity reflects some well-known patterns seen in other armed conflicts, it is shaped by two key factors specific to the time and place: first, particular understandings of the significance of hair within broader Andean cosmologies; second, tensions within the Shining Path movement at a key juncture in the war. I show that the Andean insurgents knew about the symbolic dimensions of haircutting, a crime against the integrity of the human body–soul – one understood to cause endless suffering in the journey to the afterlife in the Andean worldview – but they underplayed them. From this viewpoint, haircutting meant the mutilation of women’s physical integrity, with psychological, social and gender implications.

This article traces the history of estate landholding in the Andean valley of Antapampa over the first half of the twentieth century. It challenges a long-held and widely accepted belief that highland haciendas concentrated vast tracts of land in just a few hands. Rather, by the middle of the last century, many properties had fragmented into numerous more modest holdings. Others either held very little land at all, found themselves severely restricted by the mountainous terrain, or ceded most, sometimes all, of their possessions to a rapidly growing number of tenant farmers. The relative absence of mass land concentration, then, forces us to reconsider the role of a key institution in the countryside, in Peru, in Latin America and even beyond. To do so, this study draws upon extensive and original archival materials from roughly 300 Ministry of Agriculture case files, rarely, if ever, used before.

Understanding how policy design and implementation differ under populist and non-populist governments is complicated by the fact that populism never exists in a pure form and is always attached to a more developed ideology. Leveraging the near-simultaneous election of left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico and right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, this article analyses populism’s effect on cash transfer programmes. Despite the diametrically opposed ideologies of their presidents, rather than diverging, Mexican and Brazilian cash transfer policies converged under populism. Both leaders rebranded the programmes they inherited and moved policy in an improvised, politicised and clientelistic direction.

This article analyses a complex period in Colombian history, from the electoral victory of the Liberal Party in 1930 to the end of the Frente Nacional (National Front) in 1974, from the perspective of constitutional politics and constitutional theory. During this period, Colombia transited from democracy to dictatorship (civilian and military) and back to democracy. We therefore divide the period according to changes in regime type and also to changes in the degree of institutional constraints on power. We show that, due to combinations of regime type and constraints on power, under the same Constitution of 1886 three different constitutionalisms ensued: abusive, window-dressing, and authoritarian constitutionalism. Our analysis on Colombia highlights the role of powerful actors, such as the armed forces and the Catholic Church, that breathed life back into key constitutional provisions when these served as focal points for coordinating their actions even under an authoritarian regime.