Research Catalog

Title

Challenging social inequality : the landless rural worker's movement and agrarian reform in Brazil / edited by Miguel Carter ; selected chapters translated from the Portuguese by Miguel Carter.

Publication

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Carter, Miguel, 1964-

Description

xxix, 494 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Subject

• Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil)
• Land reform > Brazil
• Social movements > Brazil

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-468) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Portuguese.

Contents

Social inequality, agrarian reform and democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter -- The agrarian question and agribusiness in Brazil / Guilherme Costa Delgado -- Rural social movements, struggles for rights and land reform in contemporary Brazilian history / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros -- Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission and the mobilization for agrarian reform / Ivo Poletto -- The formation and territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes -- Origins and consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter -- Under the black tarp : legitimacy and dynamic of land occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud -- From Posseiro to Sem Terra : the impact of MST land struggles in the state of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue and José Batista Gonçalves Afonso -- The struggle on the land : source of innovation, strength and constant challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho -- 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 -- Community building in an MST settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo Gonzalez -- MST settlements in Pernambuco : identity and the politics of resistance / Wendy Wolford -- Working with governments : the MST's experience with the Cardoso and Lula administrations / Sue Branford -- The MST and the rule of law in Brazil / George Meszaros -- Beyond the MST : the impact on Brazilian social movements / Marcelo Rosa -- Challenging social inequality : contention, context and consequences / Miguel Carter.

Call Number

JFE 15-5221

ISBN

• 9780822351726 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822351722 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822351863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822351862 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012011604

OCLC

782252373

Title

Challenging social inequality : the landless rural worker's movement and agrarian reform in Brazil / edited by Miguel Carter ; selected chapters translated from the Portuguese by Miguel Carter.

Publisher

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-468) and index.

Language

Translated from the Portuguese.

Added Author

Carter, Miguel, 1964-

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5221