The Politics Of Agrarian Reform In Brazil

Author : Wilder Robles,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137517203

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The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil by Wilder Robles,Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, it addresses the challenges facing peasant movements in their pursuit of political and economic democracy. The book takes as a point of reference the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), the most dynamic force for progressive social change in Latin America today. Robles and Veltmeyer argue that the MST has effectively practiced the politics of land occupation and the politics of agricultural cooperativism to consolidate the food sovereignty model of agrarian reform. However, the rapid expansion of the corporate-led agribusiness model, which is supported by Brazil's political elite, has undermined the MST's efforts. The authors argue that despite intense peasant mobilization, agrarian reform remains an unfulfilled political promise in Brazil.

Author : Marta Cehelsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429706158

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Land Reform In Brazil by Marta Cehelsky Pdf

This book discusses the policy analysis in which land reform functions as a lens through which the working of political system can be examined. It is intended for political scientists and political sociologists who are concerned about national decision-making in Brazil.

Author : Thomas Griffin Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UCSD:31822002863637

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The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil by Thomas Griffin Sanders Pdf

Author : J. Petras,Wilder Robles,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349577472

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The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil by J. Petras,Wilder Robles,Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

The Politics of Agrarian Refor m in Brazi l examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and co-operativism in contemporary Brazil.

Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047843

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel Ondetti Pdf

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

Author : George Meszaros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135908652

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Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform by George Meszaros Pdf

Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the complex reasons behind the remarkably consistent failures of its constitution and law enforcement mechanisms to deliver social justice. Using detailed empirical evidence and focusing upon the relationship between rural social struggles and the state, the book develops a threefold argument: first, the inescapable presence of power relations in all aspects of the production and reproduction of law; secondly their dominant impact on socio-legal outcomes; and finally the essential and positive role played by social movements in redressing those power imbalances and realising law’s progressive potentialities.

Author : Miguel Carter
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822395065

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Challenging Social Inequality by Miguel Carter Pdf

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)—Latin America's largest and most prominent social movement—and its ongoing efforts to confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside. Several essays provide essential historical background for understanding the MST. They examine Brazil's agrarian structure, state policies, and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution. The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are geared toward developing productive and meaningful rural communities. The last essays in the collection are wide-ranging analyses of the MST, which delve into the movement's relations with recent governments and its impact on other Brazilian social movements. In the conclusion, Miguel Carter appraises the future of agrarian reform in Brazil. Contributors. José Batista Gonçalves Afonso, Sonia Maria P..P. Bergamasco, Sue Branford, Elena Calvo-González, Miguel Carter, Horacio Martins de Carvalho, Guilherme Costa Delgado, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros, George Mészáros, Luiz Antonio Norder, Gabriel Ondetti, Ivo Poletto, Marcelo Carvalho Rosa, Lygia Maria Sigaud, Emmanuel Wambergue, Wendy Wolford

Author : Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Brazil
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000357678

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The Debate Over Agrarian Reform in Brazil by Biorn Maybury-Lewis Pdf

Author : Gabriel A. Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271033533

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel A. Ondetti Pdf

"Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391074

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This Land Is Ours Now by Wendy Wolford Pdf

In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her argument by analyzing how a particular social movement works: Brazil’s Rural Landless Workers’ Movement, known as the Movimento Sem Terra (MST). Founded in the southernmost states of Brazil in the mid-1980s, this extraordinary grassroots agrarian movement grew dramatically in the ensuing years. By the late 1990s it was the most dynamic, well-organized social movement in Brazilian history. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Wolford compares the development of the movement in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina and its northeastern state of Pernambuco. As she explains, in the south, most of the movement’s members were sons and daughters of small peasant farmers; in the northeast, they were almost all former plantation workers, who related awkwardly to the movement’s agenda of accessing “land for those who work it.” The MST became an effective presence in Pernambuco only after the local sugarcane economy had collapsed. Worldwide sugarcane prices dropped throughout the 1990s, and by 1999 the MST was a prominent political organizer in the northeastern plantation region. Yet fewer than four years later, most of the region’s workers had dropped out of the movement. By delving into the northeastern workers’ motivations for joining and then leaving the MST, Wolford adds nuance and depth to accounts of a celebrated grassroots social movement, and she highlights the contingent nature of social movements and political identities more broadly.

Author : James F. Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Land reform
ISBN : OCLC:24332690

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Agrarian Reform by James F. Hicks Pdf

Author : Marta Cehelsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367020661

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Land Reform In Brazil/h by Marta Cehelsky Pdf

Throughout this book, Brazilian terms are frequently used in preference to imperfect English translations, or lengthy ~xplanations. A glossary ofsuch terms is provided for ready reference. Likewise, I adhere to the Brazilian custom of using first names or cognomen interchangeably with or in preference to family names. Thus, Joao Goulart is frequently referred to as Jango; JSnio Quadros as JSnio, etc. Also in keeping with common Brazilian usage, I refer to the overthrow of the Goulart administration in 1964 as the "revolution." This usage is a convenience and does not constitute a judgment of the true character of the event.

Author : Armin K. Ludwig,Harry W. Taylor
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033758223

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Brazil's New Agrarian Reform by Armin K. Ludwig,Harry W. Taylor Pdf

Study of the rural area land ownership, realty taxation and capital investment patterns in Brazil resulting from agrarian reform, with particular reference to the effects thereof on agricultural production and rural development. Bibliography pp. 183 to 186.

Author : Angus Lindsay Wright,Wendy Wolford
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0935028900

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To Inherit the Earth by Angus Lindsay Wright,Wendy Wolford Pdf

In the country with the widest income gap between rich and poor and where millions of children fend for themselves on city streets, one of the world's most successful grassroots social movements has arisen. To Inherit the Earth tells the dramatic story of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, or MST-millions of desperately poor, landless, jobless men and women who, through their own nonviolent efforts, have secured rights to over 20 million acres of farmland. Not only are the MST fighting for their own rights, they are transforming their society into a more just one-and their approach may offer the best solution yet to Brazil's environmental problems in the Amazon and elsewhere. Authors Wright and Wolford put the movement in its historical, political, and environmental context, trace its growth, and address the issues the MST faces going forward. And throughout, they share dozens of personal stories of people in the movement--stories filled with tremendous courage, personal sacrifice, faith, humor, drama, and determination.

Author : Saturnino Borras Jr.,Cristóbal Kay,Edward Lahiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317990963

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Market-Led Agrarian Reform by Saturnino Borras Jr.,Cristóbal Kay,Edward Lahiff Pdf

Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian reform (MLAR) has gained prominence since the early 1990s as an alternative to state-led land reforms. This neoliberal policy is based on the inversion of what its proponents see as the features of earlier approaches, and calls for redistribution via privatized, decentralized transactions between ‘willing sellers’ and ‘willing buyers’. Its proponents, especially those associated with the World Bank, have claimed success where the policy has been implemented, but such claims have been contested by independent scholars as well as by peasant movements who are struggling to gain access to land. This book presents three thematic papers and six country studies. The thematic papers address issues of formalisation of property rights, gendered land rights, and neoliberal enclosure. These studies demonstrate the pervasive influence of neoliberal ideas on property rights and rural development debates, well beyond the ‘core’ question of land redistribution. The country cases bring together experiences from Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Philippines, South Africa and Egypt. Common findings include the success of landowners in minimising the impact of reform, and a lack of post-transfer support, translating into marginal impact on poverty. The limitations of the market-led approach, and the implications of the studies presented here for the future of agrarian reform, are considered in the editors’ introduction. This book was a special issue of The Third World Quarterly.