Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil

Author:   Miguel Carter
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822351726


Pages:   544
Publication Date:   06 May 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Miguel Carter
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9780822351726


ISBN 10:   0822351722
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   06 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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

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This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change. Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University


""This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."" Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University


Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contributors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement's history, organization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expanding our understanding of contemporary Brazil. -Leslie Bethell, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change. -Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University


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

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