Title Challenging social inequality : the landless rural worker's movement and agrarian reform in Brazil / edited by Miguel Carter ; selected chapters translated from the Portuguese by Miguel Carter

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 494 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Social inequality, agrarian reform and democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter -- The agrarian question and agribusiness in Brazil / Guilherme Costa Delgado -- Rural social movements, struggles for rights and land reform in contemporary Brazilian history / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros -- Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission and the mobilization for agrarian reform / Ivo Poletto -- The formation and territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes -- Origins and consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter -- Under the black tarp : legitimacy and dynamic of land occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud -- 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 -- The struggle on the land : source of innovation, strength and constant challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho -- 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 -- Community building in an MST settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo Gonzalez -- MST settlements in Pernambuco : identity and the politics of resistance / Wendy Wolford -- Working with governments : the MST's experience with the Cardoso and Lula administrations / Sue Branford -- The MST and the rule of law in Brazil / George Meszaros -- Beyond the MST : the impact on Brazilian social movements / Marcelo Rosa -- Challenging social inequality : contention, context and consequences / Miguel Carter Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-468) and index Notes Translated from the Portuguese Print version record Subject Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil) SUBJECT Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil) fast Subject Land reform -- Brazil Social movements -- Brazil BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Land reform Social movements Brazil Form Electronic book Author Carter, Miguel, 1964- editor, translator. ISBN 9780822395065 0822395061

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