This article addresses how the peasant movement, in the period 2013 and 2019, sought political recognition vis-à-vis the State based on the placement and demand of three fundamental elements: the construction of a political subject, the constitution of a subject of rights and the dispute over the meaning of the peasant and the peasantry. Through content analysis and in the light of the discourse theory developed by Ernesto Laclau, four moments of the study period were examined, conceived as points of rupture and opportunity, in which a series of tensions related to the discursive disputes between the peasant movement and government institutions were revealed. This allowed us to understand that political recognition requires understanding that the act of naming the peasantry and conceptualizing the peasant underlies a deep political interest in the meanings to be positioned and that, in addition, the peasant movement demands the formation of a political subject capable of challenging what is established and proposing places of survival of the peasant way of life.
