Challenging Social Inequality (eBook, PDF)

The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Redaktion: Miguel Carter, Carter

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Produktbeschreibung

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)-Latin America's largest and most prominent social movement-and its ongoing efforts to confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside. Several essays provide essential historical background for understanding the MST. They examine Brazil's agrarian structure, state policies, and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution. The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are geared toward developing productive and meaningful rural communities. The last essays in the collection are wide-ranging analyses of the MST, which delve into the movement's relations with recent governments and its impact on other Brazilian social movements. In the conclusion, Miguel Carter appraises the future of agrarian reform in Brazil.Contributors. Jose Batista Goncalves Afonso, Sonia Maria P..P. Bergamasco, Sue Branford, Elena Calvo-Gonzalez, Miguel Carter, Horacio Martins de Carvalho, Guilherme Costa Delgado, Bernardo Mancano Fernandes, Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, George Meszaros, Luiz Antonio Norder, Gabriel Ondetti, Ivo Poletto, Marcelo Carvalho Rosa, Lygia Maria Sigaud, Emmanuel Wambergue, Wendy Wolford

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395065
• Artikelnr.: 54793809

Autorenporträt

Miguel Carter is Founding Director of DEMOS - Centro para la Democracia, la Creatividad y la Inclusión Social, a new think tank based in Paraguay.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii
1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel
Carter 1
Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil
2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa
Delgado 43
3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in
Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68
4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for
Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90
Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land
5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo
Mançano Fernandes 115
6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel
Carter 149
7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in
Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182
8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the
State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista
Conçalves Afonso 202
Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements
9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant
Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229
10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo: From Social Conflict to the
Diversity of Local Impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio
Cabello Noder 274
11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena
Calvo-González 293
12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance
/ Wendy Wolford 310
Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil
13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and
Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331
14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351
15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo
Carvalho Rosa 375
16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences /
Miguel Carter 390
Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments
/ Miguel Carter 413
References 429
Contributors 469
Index 473