This Land Is Ours Now Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

Name: This Land Is Ours Now Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
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ISBN: 9780822345398

ISBN-10: 0822345390

ISBN-13: 9780822345398

Edition: 2010

Authors: Wendy Wolford

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InThis Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents a new 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 actually works. She focuses on an extraordinary grassroots agrarian movement, Brazil's Rural Landless Workers' Movement, known as the MST (Movimento Sem Terra). Founded in the southernmost states of Brazil in the mid-1980s, the MST grew dramatically in the…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English