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Format: 1 online resource (544 p.) : , 45 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822395065

Content: 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. José Batista Gonçalves Afonso, Sonia Maria P..P. Bergamasco, Sue Branford, Elena Calvo-González, Miguel Carter, Horacio Martins de Carvalho, Guilherme Costa Delgado, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros, George Mészáros, Luiz Antonio Norder, Gabriel Ondetti, Ivo Poletto, Marcelo Carvalho Rosa, Lygia Maria Sigaud, Emmanuel Wambergue, Wendy Wolford

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- , List of Abbreviations -- , An Overview -- , 1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil -- , Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil -- , 2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil -- , 3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazilian History -- , 4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for Agrarian Reform -- , Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land -- , 5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil -- , 6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul -- , 7. Under the Black Tarp -- , 8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra -- , Part III. MST’s Agricultural Settlements -- , 9. The Struggle on the Land -- , 10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo -- , 11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil -- , 12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco -- , Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil -- , 13. Working with Governments -- , 14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil -- , 15. Beyond the MST -- , Conclusion. Challenging Social Inequality -- , Epilogue. Broken Promise -- , References -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822395065

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395065

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395065

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395065

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822395065