Social movements, law, and the politics of land reform
Subtitle: lessons from Brazil
By: George Mészáros
Series: Law, development and globalization
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415477710; 9780203552117
Subjects: Social aspects; Land reform; Political aspects; Law and legislation; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shocking the system : social movement pressure as the catalyst of political and legal change; title: To criminalise or not to criminalise? conflicting legal responses to social movement pressure; title: Why law fails : the administration of land law in the context of power relations; title: The limits of progressive state action; title: Pushing and redefining legal boundaries through social movement pressure.