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The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance Hummel, Agata Escribano, Paula This article analyses everyday forms of resistance of theneo-peasants in Catalonia against the dominant legaland economic system. For the purpose of the analy-sis, neo-peasants are defined as social movement whoseactors share the same values reflected in the neo-peasantidentity and try to put into practice a peasant lifestyleand a peasant economy based on agriculture and ani-mal breeding. This article is based on the analysis ofthe ethnography of 26 initiatives that was carried outbetween 2016 and 2020. It examines the neo-peasantlifestyle as a form of infrapolitics–neo-peasants’ ‘a-legal’practices, such as pig slaughter or voluntary insolvency.These neo-peasant resistance strategies are the forms ofcoping with the current legal and economic context. Wepropose that infrapolitics is a mode of action that can beused to redefine what is considered a legitimate politicalspace and to build new spaces in which political agonismcan be manifested. Moreover, we argue that because ofthis particular function of neo-peasant infrapolitics, theycan be analysed using the New Social Movements theoryor a concept of the ‘hope movement’. 2026-02-25T10:05:10Z 2026-02-25T10:05:10Z 2021-10-21 journal article Hummel, A. & Escribano, P. (2022) The neo-peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance. Sociologia Ruralis, 62, 3–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12361 1467-9523 10.1111/soru.12361 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/133154 https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12361 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soru.12361 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CSO2015-67368-P/ES/CONCEPCIONES POPULARES DE LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL ANTE LA CRISIS Y LAS POLITICAS DE AUSTERIDAD/ open access Wiley