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Agriculture, Environment and Development
The Second Edition of this book is completely revised and updated throughout providing an overview of current challenges faced within the area of Agri-food in relation to policymaking, ecological conservation and socio-environmental justice. Including a range of new chapters, the book explores some of the conceptual and analytical gaps that are presented by current approaches to this topic. The series of interconnected chapters offers a critical reinterpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes, land and resource grabbing, and the impacts of global agri-food chains at local, regional and inter-sectoral scales. The book also examines past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture modernisation, politico-spatial disputes, climate change, social movements, gender, ethnicity and education. It likewise addresses the transformative potential of different combinations of biophysical, socio-technical and socio-spatial practices of food sovereignty.
Geografia agrária
As mudanças desencadeadas no mundo pelo avanço do processo de globalização com base na ideologia neoliberal atingem de forma contundente o campo, as florestas, as águas e as sociedades que fazem desses espaços seus territórios de via, com conseqüências diversas para a sociedade global. Os artigos reunidos neste livro analisam, sob diferentes perspectivas, as contradições e os sujeitos envolvidos nessas mudanças e suas formas de ação política, por meio da crítica às teorias, ideologias e modelos de desnvolvimento que sustentam intervenções em seus territórios. O livro está organizado em quatro partes 1 - Conceitos e políticas de desenvolvimento teorias e ideologias; 2 - ...
Landless Voices
"This landmark anthology brings to an international audience those cultural and political acts in which the Sem Terra express their poetry, music, painting and art. The lettered and the unlettered interact in the building of a consciousness of the struggle for land and education. It is a rousing tribute." Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, UNESCO Chair in Territorial Development and Education for the Countryside
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements
Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social M...
Reclaiming the Land
Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three continents - Africa, Latin America and Asia - an intellectually consistent set of original investigations into this new generation of rural social movements. These country studies seek to identify their social composition, strategies, tactics, and i...
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
In Occupying Schools, Occupying Land, Rebecca Tarlau looks at the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement over the past thirty-five years to illustrate how social movements can use state services, such as schools, to support their social change goals. Through a detailed ethnographic and long-term examination of the MST's educational struggle, Tarlau shows how educational institutions can in turn help movements build capacity and social influence. This bookprovides an analysis of how activists convinced government officials to implement these educational practices and how these initiatives strengthened the movement.
To Inherit the Earth
In the country with the widest income gap between rich and poor and where millions of children fend for themselves on city streets, one of the world's most successful grassroots social movements has arisen. To Inherit the Earth tells the dramatic story of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, or MST-millions of desperately poor, landless, jobless men and women who, through their own nonviolent efforts, have secured rights to over 20 million acres of farmland. Not only are the MST fighting for their own rights, they are transforming their society into a more just one-and their approach may offer the best solution yet to Brazil's environmental problems in the Amazon and elsewhere. Authors Wright and Wolford put the movement in its historical, political, and environmental context, trace its growth, and address the issues the MST faces going forward. And throughout, they share dozens of personal stories of people in the movement--stories filled with tremendous courage, personal sacrifice, faith, humor, drama, and determination.
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.
Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform
Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the complex reasons behind the remarkably consistent failures of its constitution and law enforcement mechanisms to deliver social justice. Using detailed empirical evidence and focusing upon the relationship between rural social struggles and the state, the book develops a threefold argument: first, the inescapable presence of power relations in all aspects of the production and reproduction of law; secondly their dominant impact on socio-legal outcomes; and finally the essential and positive role played by social movements in redressing those power imbalances and realising law’s progressive potentialities.
Paradigmas da geografia agrária brasileira
A presente obra apresenta um estudo sobre dois paradigmas a respeito da pesquisa do espaço agrário: o paradigma do capitalismo agrário e o paradigma da questão agrária. Ao expor como tem sido abordado o debate paradigmático na comunidade geográfica, em especial, a brasileira, a obra nos faz ressaltar a importância do processo de construção de conhecimento a respeito da organização e uso do espaço, portanto, do desenvolvimento territorial. Incita nós, geógrafos, estudantes, pesquisadores e professores de Geografia, a refletir que tipo de conhecimento queremos desenvolver, com quem e para quem?
