Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

retórica campesinista pues el discurso modernizador mostraba

English translation:

campesino rhetoric since the modernizing discourse was ...

Added to glossary by Hellen Varela-Fdez.
Dec 10, 2007 17:32
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Spanish term

retórica campesinista pues el discurso modernizador mostraba

Spanish to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Hola!! Les agradeceré alguna idea para traducir esto.

En este caso, se trata de un artículo sobre las diferencias en el avance tecnológico agrícola entre varios países.

Contexto:

"Era sorpresiva la retórica campesinista pues el discurso modernizador mostraba una posición subordinada. El campesino se percibía como un “iletrado”, “desconocedor” de sus propios intereses e incapaz de comprender “los grandes beneficios” de los proyectos estatales."

Gracias!!

Hellen

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campesino rhetoric since the modernizing discourse was ...

subordinated to it.

I don't like using peasant for campesino since it sounds pejorative to me, but I suppose that "peasant rhetoric" is a possibility.

The modernizing discourse has its main origins in 1960s Québécois state ... The modernizing discourse focuses on the importance of the state in ...
coa.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/21/2/117.pdf

hey have begun to do so through 'development' and 'enter- prise' activities, rather than the traditional political rhetoric of the campesino movements of ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398(199707)163%3A2%3C189%3ASCARIL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
Peer comment(s):

agree Claudia Pesce : Def. of "campesino" according to m-w.com :a native of a Latin-American rural area; therefore, I totally agree this is the best choice :D
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thank you, Claudia. It always amazes me that "campesino" is an English word (now that M-W has accepted it), yet people will do anything to avoid it! ¡un saludo!
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ruralist rhetoric since the modernizing discourse was

There is no exact equivalent to campesino in English, as far as I have ever been able to determine. Peasant doesn't really do it because a peasant it has pejorative overtones, whereas campesino is merely a description in Spanish:

"campesino, na.

1. adj. Perteneciente o relativo al campo.

2. adj. Propio de él.

3. adj. Dicho de una persona: Que vive y trabaja de ordinario en el campo. U. t. c. s.

4. adj. Silvestre, espontáneo, inculto.

5. adj. Natural de Tierra de Campos. U. t. c. s.

6. adj. Perteneciente o relativo a esta comarca de Castilla, en España.


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I offer ruralist as a possible alternative to just using campesino.

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Also, campesino is a political sector in Mexico, and a campesinista would be an activist or member of the movement, rather than simply a farmer or farm worker. The rest of the translation would be "was showing a subordinate position."
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the ruralist rhetoric was surprising as the modernizing discourse showed

Otra.
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