Vélez-Torres Irene (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-8566-6722) TITLE PAGE BEYOND PROPERTY: RURAL POLITICS AND LAND-USE CHANGE IN THE COLOMBIAN SUGARCANE LANDSCAPE Irene Vélez-Torres PhD, Full Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Colombia. Calle 13 # 100-00, Email:
[email protected]. ORCiDs: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-6722 Daniel Varela, PhD student in Anthropology & History at Michigan University, USA. Researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and ICANH. Víctor Cobo-Medina, MsA student in Research on Sociology in Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales – FLACSO, Ecuador. Diana Hurtado MSc, Researcher at the School of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Colombia. Abstract Analyzing the sugarcane landscape in the flat valley of the Cauca River (Colombia) reveals that agricultural industrialization in the region required the concentration of land use by regional industrialists, and the corresponding exclusion of landowners and poor peasants from territorial decision-making processes. The analytical lens used in this article, based on the use and control over land and land-based natural commons, allows for the characterization of three periods in a non-linear process of articulation and dispute between poor peasant and capitalist agents in the expansion of the sugarcane monoculture during the 20th century. The different constellations of social agents, governmental nexus and capital enclosures have enacted through