Challenging social inequality
Subtitle: the landless rural worker's movement and agrarian reform in Brazil
By: Miguel Carter, ed. ; selected chapters translated from the Portuguese by Miguel Carter
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822351726; 9780822351863
Subjects: Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil); Land reform; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social inequality, agrarian reform and democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter; title: The agrarian question and agribusiness in Brazil / Guilherme Costa Delgado; title: Rural social movements, struggles for rights and land reform in contemporary Brazilian history / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros; title: Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission and the mobilization for agrarian reform / Ivo Poletto; title: The formation and territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes; title: Origins and consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter; title: Under the black tarp : legitimacy and dynamic of land occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud; title: 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; title: The struggle on the land : source of innovation, strength and constant challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho; title: 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; title: Community building in an MST settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo Gonzalez; title: MST settlements in Pernambuco : identity and the politics of resistance / Wendy Wolford; title: Working with governments : the MST's experience with the Cardoso and Lula administrations / Sue Branford; title: The MST and the rule of law in Brazil / George Meszaros; title: Beyond the MST : the impact on Brazilian social movements / Marcelo Rosa; title: Challenging social inequality : contention, context and consequences / Miguel Carter.