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11%OFFWendy Wolford - This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil - 9780822345398 - V9780822345398
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This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

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Description for This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil Paperback. This on-the-ground account of a celebrated Brazilian agrarian movement highlights the contingent nature of social movements and political identities more broadly. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 photos, 13 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822345398
SKU
V9780822345398
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About Wendy Wolford
Wendy Wolford is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.

Reviews for This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
“Wolford’s narrative style accommodates her heterogeneous sources, but she is rooted in ethnography, and the density of her description is a significant virtue. She allows space for extended material directly from interviews with MST settlers and leaders, which ground her analysis. In her conclusion, she offers a careful, balanced, and subtle evaluation of President Lula’s record on agrarian reform that ... Read more

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