Brazil’s movement of the landless at the cutting edge of conflicted modernity

Autor:	Rowan Ireland
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Sociology and Political Science Movement (music) Political economy Political science Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Political Science and International Relations Agrarian reform Modernization theory Social movement media_common
Zdroj:	Thesis Eleven. 143:115-123
ISSN:	1461-7455 0725-5136
DOI:	10.1177/0725513617742473
Popis:	Brazil’s Movement of the Landless (MST) emerges from this collection as one of the great social movements of modernity. In historical chapters we see its evolution from confrontations with landowners and police in land invasions in the South of Brazil in the 1970s to become a multi-faceted movement with a presence throughout Brazil. More than a pressure group for Land Reform, it turned to mount a comprehensive challenge, on linked legal, cultural, political and economic fronts to Brazil’s dominant model of development. Its ‘social movement approach’, conjoining challenge to Brazil’s massive inequalities with the formation of active citizens among the marginalised rural poor, has become a model for movements in the urban scene. We see this not just through the rich descriptive accounts of MST actions, but because the contributing editor, Miguel Carter, has pointed the action portraits with theoretical acumen, and, with other contributors, placed them in historical context.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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