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In "This Land Is Ours Now," Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her argument by analyzing how a particular social movement works: Brazil s Rural Landless Workers Movement, known as the Movimento Sem Terra (MST). Founded in the southernmost states of Brazil in the...

In "This Land Is Ours Now," Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her argument by analyzing how a particular social movement works: Brazil s Rural Landless Workers Movement, known as the Movimento Sem Terra (MST). Founded in the southernmost states of Brazil in the...

This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.

• Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance
• Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions
• Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land...