Challenging Social Inequality
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Herausgeber: Carter, Miguel
Challenging Social Inequality
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Herausgeber: Carter, Miguel
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Miguel Carter is Founding Director of DEMOS - Centro para la Democracia, la Creatividad y la Inclusión Social, a new think tank based in Paraguay. ¿
Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii
1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel
Carter 1
Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil
2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa
Delgado 43
3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in
Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68
4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for
Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90
Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land
5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo
Mançano Fernandes 115
6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel
Carter 149
7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in
Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182
8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the
State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista
Conçalves Afonso 202
Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements
9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant
Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229
10. 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 274
11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena
Calvo-González 293
12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance
/ Wendy Wolford 310
Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil
13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and
Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331
14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351
15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo
Carvalho Rosa 375
16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences /
Miguel Carter 390
Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments
/ Miguel Carter 413
References 429
Contributors 469
Index 473
