Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform: Lessons from Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780415477710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 216 str.

George Meszaros

Opis

Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how state and rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of a re-emergence of constitutional promises and projects in much of the developing world.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1:Shocking the System: Social Movement Pressure as the Catalyst of Political and Legal Change; Chapter 2:To Criminalise or not to Criminalise? Conflicting Legal Responses to Social Movement Pressure; Chapter 3:Why Law Fails: the Administration of Land Law in the Context of Power Relations; Chapter 4: The Limits of Progressive State Action; Chapter 5: Pushing and Redefining Legal Boundaries through Social Movement Pressure

O autorze

George Meszaros is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick