“Land for whoever works it” : Participation and cleavages in rural collective action – A study of the occupation of ‘Somonte’

In the context of contemporary agrarian and new social movement studies, the post-modernist approaches of framing processes seeks to explain how participation in said organization is achieved through constructed meanings, interests and values. However, a class-based analysis that considers class-consciousness and collective agency, reveals that while framing processes can help explain mass participation to an extent, by itself it leaves aside important socioeconomic and socio-political considerations of that make up class-based movements like the SAT (Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores) (Andalusian Workers’ Union). The present paper examines how through a specific grounded framing processes, class-consciousness is constructed and influenced in the land occupation campaign of Somonte, in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia.