Challenging social inequality : the landless rural worker's movement and agrarian reform in Brazil / edited byMiguel Carter ; selected chapters translated from the Portuguese by Miguel Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Miguel, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil).

Land reform--Brazil.

Land reform.

Social movements--Brazil.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><P>Miguel Carter is Founding Director of DEMOS - Centro para la Democracia, la Creatividad y la Inclusión Social, a new think tank based in Paraguay.<BR> </P></div>

Contents:

Social inequality, agrarian reform and democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter

The agrarian question and agribusiness in Brazil / Guilherme Costa Delgado

Rural social movements, struggles for rights and land reform in contemporary Brazilian history / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros

Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission and the mobilization for agrarian reform / Ivo Poletto

The formation and territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes

Origins and consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter

Under the black tarp : legitimacy and dynamic of land occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud

From Posseiro to Sem Terra : the impact of MST land struggles in the state of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue and José Batista Gonçalves Afonso

The struggle on the land : source of innovation, strength and constant challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho

Rural settlements and the MST in São Paulo : from social conflict to the diversity of local impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Cabello Noder

Community building in an MST settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo Gonzalez

MST settlements in Pernambuco : identity and the politics of resistance / Wendy Wolford

Working with governments : the MST's experience with the Cardoso and Lula administrations / Sue Branford

The MST and the rule of law in Brazil / George Meszaros

Beyond the MST : the impact on Brazilian social movements / Marcelo Rosa

Challenging social inequality : contention, context and consequences / Miguel Carter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822351863

0822351862

OCLC:

1139349396