Wendy Wolford

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at Brazil's largest grassroots social movement, Movement of Rural Landless Workers, or MST, to show how mobilization is shaped by cultural understandings of material and spatial environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345398
• ISBN-10: 0822345390
• Artikelnr.: 28031787

Autorenporträt

Wendy Wolford is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Mobilization within Movements
2. The Making of a Movement in Southern Brazil
3. The MST's Imagined Community and Agrarian Populism
4. The Making of a Movement in Northeastern Brazil
5. Moral Economies of Sugarcane and Social Mobilization
6. Going Bananas: Producing for Market, State, and Movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index