Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement

Landless Perspectives

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032829470 (ISBN)

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Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin America’s largest social movement as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), with over 1.5 million members, has been fighting for agrarian reform since 1984. In its 40-year struggle, the movement has secured land for over 350,000 families and become a worldwide beacon for progressive politics. Its enduring presence is a remarkable feat; while other movements have come and gone, the MST continues to be a steadfast force in the pursuit of social justice and environmental sustainability. How has the MST managed to endure in a country dominated by agribusiness and characterized by hostile politics? The rationale of this collection is to answer such questions from an ethnographic standpoint, connecting personal stories to theorizations of land and struggle. The detailed accounts of this book’s contributions sit in dialogue with the longitudinal commitment of the contributors, many of whom have been working with the movement over a period of decades. Such a commitment allows this book to speak to a 40-year timeframe, creating an approach that points to broader conclusions and possible futures. With contributors from Brazil, Europe, and North America, this book connects lived experiences with wider political questions pertaining to global mass mobilization. Offering a fresh perspective on one of the world’s most iconic social movements, this volume celebrates the durability of the MST and speaks to the productive tensions that characterize its lived, vital, and daily struggle for agrarian reform. The material will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, Latin American studies and beyond.

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Introduction: Relations and the social in movement

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

1. Peasant pathways: The MST and conquered territories as future

Nashieli Rangel Loera

2. Two enemies to fight: an ethnographic journey with MST Pentecostals in Pernambuco

David Simbsler

3. Critique of the MST: Perfecting the Anarchist Promise of a Socialist Movement

Jonathan DeVore

4. The Agroecological Rift

Claire Lagier

5. Education in movement with the Movement: The evolution of the Pedagogy of the MST over 40 years

Alessandro Mariano and Rebecca Tarlau

6. Becoming sem terra: rites of passage and protest

Mel Gurr

7. Art in movement: challenging the latifundio of cinema, museums, and educational institutions

A conversation with Alan Leite, Luciana Melo, Bárbara Wagner, and Benjamin de Burca

8. From demonization to Canonization: The Landless Workers’ Movement Shifting Relationship to the City

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	37 Halftones, black and white; 37 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781032829470 / 9781032829470
Zustand	Neuware