Occupying Schools, Occupying Land is an extraordinary piece of scholarship, both in its fine-grained empirical narrative and its theoretical argument. The originality of its insights and arguments go far beyond research on the Landless Peasant Movement and schools in Brazil. It is an important contribution to the Gramscian current of social theory and should be read by anyone interested in the potentials and dilemmas of struggles for progressive social
transformation in capitalist societies.
Rebecca Tarlau is Assistant Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University. She is affiliated with the Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program, the Comparative and International Education program, and the Center for Global Workers' Rights.