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...