Brazilian Agrarian Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9781138393233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Rebecca Tarlau; Anthony Pahnke

Opis

Brazilian Agrarian Social Movements offers an overview of contemporary forms of rural resistance and the implications of these mobilizations and movements for alternative agricultural production, large-scale development projects, education, race and political parties in the contemporary agrarian context.

Spis treści

1. Understanding rural resistance: contemporary mobilization in the Brazilian countryside 2. Institutionalizing economies of opposition: explaining and evaluating the success of the MST’s cooperatives and agroecological repeasantization 3. Rural unions and the struggle for land in Brazil 4. Engaging the Brazilian state: the Belo Monte dam and the struggle for political voice 5. Education of the countryside at a crossroads: rural social movements and national policy reform in Brazil 6. Learning as territoriality: the political ecology of education in the Brazilian landless workers’ movement 7. The Landless invading the landless: participation, coercion, and agrarian social movements in the cacao lands of southern Bahia, Brazil 8. The Brazilian quilombo: ‘race’, community and land in space and time 9. Can urban migration contribute to rural resistance? Indigenous mobilization in the Middle Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil 10. Lula’s assault on rural patronage: Zero Hunger, ethnic mobilization and the deployment of pilgrimage 11. Managing transience: Bolsa Família and its subjects in an MST landless settlement