Reclaiming the land
Subtitle: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
By: edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros.
Contributors: Moyo, Sam.; Yeros, Paris, 1968-; African Institute for Agrarian Studies.
Publisher: Zed Books; D. Philip; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York; Cape Town; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781842774243; 9781842774250
Subjects: Land tenure -- Africa; Land tenure -- Asia; Land tenure -- Latin America; Land use, Rural -- Africa; Land use, Rural -- Asia; Land use, Rural -- Latin America; Land reform -- Africa; Land reform -- Asia; Land reform -- Latin America; Rural development -- Africa; Rural development -- Asia; Rural development -- Latin America
Description: "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 book 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 ideologies: to assess their relations with other social actors, including political parties, urban social movements, and international aid agencies and other institutions: and to examine their most common tactic, the land occupation, its origins, pace and patterns, as well as the responses of governments and landowners."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "[Published] in association with the African Institute for Agrarian Studies ... Harare, Zimbabwe"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The resurgence of rural movements under neoliberalism / Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros; title: Rural land and land conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa / Henry Bernstein; title: Night harvesters, forest hoods and saboteurs: struggles over land expropriation in Ghana / Kojo Sebastian Amanor; title: Land occupations in Malawi: challenging the neoliberal legal order / Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo; title: Land occupations in South Africa / Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane; title: Land occupations and land reform in Zimbabwe: towards the National Democratic Revolution / Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros; title: Rural land struggles in Asia: overview of selected contexts / Filomeno V. Aguilar; title: Occupation of land in India: experiences and challenges / Minar Pimple and Manpreet Sethi; title: Stretching the 'limits' of redistributive reform: lessons and evidence from the Philippines under neoliberalism / Salvador H. Feranil; title: The dynamics of land occupations in Latin America / Henry Veltmeyer; title: The occupation as a form of access to land in Brazil: a theoretical and methodological contribution / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes; title: Agrarian reform in Brazil under neoliberalism: evaluation and perspectives / Lauro Mattei; title: The agrarian question and armed struggle in Colombia / Igor Ampuero and James J. Brittain; title: Indian peasant movements in Mexico: the struggle for land, autonomy and democracy / Armando Bartra and Gerardo Otero.