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| Pahnke, A. 2017. The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement's Educational Project. Latin American Politics and Society 59(3): 3-26. | ||
| Mariano, A. and Tarlau, R. 2019. The Landless Workers Movement’s itinerant schools: occupying and transforming public education in Brazil. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2019, Vol. 40, NO. 4, 538–559 |
This article explores how social movement co-governance of public education |
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| Mariano, A., Hilário, E., and Tarlau, R. 2016. Pedagogies of struggle and collective organization: the educational practices of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement |
The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the largest and |
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| Tarlau, R. 2015. How do new critical pedagogies develop? Educational innovation, social change, and landless workers in Brazil. Teachers College Record 117.11: 1-36. |
This article provides insights into the process of grassroots educational innovation, |
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| Tarlau, R. 2015. Not-so-public contention: Movement strategies, regimes, and the transformation of public institutions in Brazil. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20.1: 101-121. |
This article examines how political regimes structure the strategies activists can effectively |
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| Rebecca Tarlau. 2015. Education of the countryside at a crossroads: rural social movements and national policy reform in Brazil, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42:6, 1157-1177 |
This contribution explores the strategies used by popular movements seeking to advance |
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| Tarlau, R. and N. Thapliyal. 2014. LEARNING, AND TRANSFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW OF EDUCATION WITHIN THE LANDLESS WORKERS’ MOVEMENT IN BRAZIL. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 3(1), pp.18-41 |
This article provides an introduction to the Brazilian social movement known as the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After a brief history of the landless struggle and the international organisation of the movement, the article discusses educational philosophy and practice in the MST. The MST... |
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| Zimmerman de Moraes, M., and E. Witcel. 2014. "The "Responsibility" of being Educators in a Social Movement School. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 3(1): 42-56 | ||
| Thapliyal, N. 2013. Reframing the public in public education: The Landless Workers Movement (MST) and adult education in Brazil. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS) 11.4 |
Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital and political patronage. For the last four decades, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) have maintained a struggle to democratise public education and democracy itself. In this article, I make a... |
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| Hammond, J.L. (2014) Mística, meaning and popular education in the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement. Interface: a journal for and about social movements 6(1): 372-391. |
The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) works to create solidarity and collective identity among its members through a variety of pedagogical practices. One such practice is mística, which is at once a public, expressive dramatic performance and, drawing on Christian mysticism, an way of... |
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| Tarlau, R. 2012. Soviets in the countryside: The MST’s remaking of socialist educational practices in Brazil. Logics of Socialist Education. Springer, Dordrecht. 53-72. | ||
| Tarlau, R. 2013. Coproducing rural public schools in Brazil: Contestation, clientelism, and the landless workers’ movement. Politics & Society 41(3): 395-424. |
The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been the principal protagonist |
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| Tarlau, R. 2013. The Social(ist) Pedagogies of the MST: Towards new Relations of Production in the Brazilian Countryside. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21(41). |
This article explores the social(ist) pedagogies of the Brazilian Landless Workers |
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| Hammond, J.L. 2004. "The MST and the media: competing images of the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement." Latin American Politics and Society 46(4): 61-90. |
For social movements, coverage in the media is a mixed blessing; but like many movements, the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement (MST) actively seeks it out. Treatment of the MST in the Brazilian media is analyzed here using the concept of frame. That treatment is determined by a complex... |
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| Hammond, John L. 2014 "Mística, meaning and popular education in the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement." Interface: a journal for and about social movements 6(1): 372-391. | ||
| Flynn, Alex. 2013. "Mística, myself and I: Beyond cultural politics in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement." Critique of Anthropology 33(2): 168-192. |
How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases |
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| Stock, P.V., Forney, J., Emery, S.B., Wittmaan, H. (2014). Neoliberal natures on the farm: Farmer autonomy and cooperation in comparative perspective. Journal of Rural Studies 36: 411-422. |
The struggle over autonomy in farming is emblematic of the philosophical and practical tensions |
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| Diniz, A.S. and B. Gilbert (2013)"Socialist values and cooperation in Brazil’s landless rural workers’ movement." Latin American Perspectives 40(4): 19-34. |
When the Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra do Brasil (Movement of |
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| Blesh, J., and H. Wittman (2015) "“Brasilience:” assessing resilience in land reform settlements in the Brazilian Cerrado." Human ecology 43(4): 531-546. |
This study assessed the socioecological resilience |
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| Wittman, H. Chappell, M.J. Abson, D.J., Bezner Kerr, R., Blesh, J. Hanspach, J. Perfecto, I.2017. A social–ecological perspective on harmonizing food security and biodiversity conservation." Regional Environmental Change 17.5: 1291-1301. |
The major challenges of improving food security |
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| Guerra, J. Blesh, J. Filho, A. and Wittman, H. 2017. Pathways to agroecological management through mediated markets in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Elem Sci Anth, 5: 67 |
Agroecology, as a social movement and scientific discipline, applies ecological principles to the design and management of agricultural systems to improve environmental outcomes and livelihoods for farmers and rural communities. However, little research to date has assessed the policy mechanisms... |
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| Emergency Platform to Confront the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Brazilian Crisis |
CLICK ON PDF BELOW TO ACCESS THE EMERGENCY PLATFORM TO CONFRONT THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND THE BRAZILIAN CRISIS |
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| Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano, Clifford Andrew Welch, and Elienai Constantino Gonçalves. 2010. "Agrofuel policies in Brazil: paradigmatic and territorial disputes." The Journal of Peasant Studies 37.4: 793-819. | ||
| Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano. 2016. "Development Models for the Brazilian Countryside: Paradigmatic and Territorial Disputes." Latin American Perspectives 43.2: 48-59. | ||
| Wittman, Hannah. 2010. "Agrarian reform and the environment: fostering ecological citizenship in Mato Grosso, Brazil." Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement 29.3-4: 281-298. | ||
| Wittman, Hannah, and Jennifer Blesh. 2017. "Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil." Journal of Agrarian Change 17.1: 81-105. | ||
| Wittman, Hannah. 2009. "Reframing agrarian citizenship: Land, life and power in Brazil." Journal of Rural Studies 25.1: 120-130. | ||
| Wittman, Hannah. 2009. "Reframing agrarian citizenship: Land, life and power in Brazil." Journal of Rural Studies 25.1: 120-130. | ||
| Meek, D. Bradley, K. Hoey, L. Morales, H. Rosset, P. Tarlau, R. 2019. Food sovereignty education across the Americas: multiple origins, converging movements. Agriculture and Human Values 36 (3): 611-626. | ||
| Meek, D. Tarlau, R. 2015. Critical food systems education and the question of race. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 5 (4) 131-135 | ||
| Meek, David. "Taking research with its roots: restructuring schools in the Brazilian landless workers' movement upon the principles of a political ecology of education." Journal of Political Ecology 22.1 (2015): 410-428. | ||
| Tarlau, R. 2013. Coproducing Rural Public Schools in Brazil : Contestation, Clientelism, and the Landless Workers' Movement. Politics & Society 41(3) 395 –424 |
The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been the principal protagonist |
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| Meek, D. 2015. Learning as territoriality: the political ecology of education in the Brazilian landless workers’ movement. Journal of Peasant Studies. 42 (6) 1179-1200 | ||
| Leadership Development and Formação in Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement | ||
| THE LANDLESS RURAL WORKERS MOVEMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL |
New article authored by Miguel Carter, professor at American University, Washington D.C. Dr. Carter is a long time supporter of the MST and an expert on Latin... |
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| [INTERVIEW] In-Depth Interview with MST's Joao Pedro Stedile: The MST Wants a New Model of Agrarian Reform, 2007. |
In an interview with the online newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa, João Pedro Stedile, of the national MST leadership, speaks about the need to build a development model that prioritizes democratization of the land, the distribution of income, and an agriculture based on small and medium-size... |
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| [REPORT] Transnational Institute (TNI) Report: Agrofuels - Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas |
Agrofuels - Towards a reality check in nine key areas The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass... |
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| [REPORT] GRAIN Report: Seedling - Agrofuels Special Issue |
New from GRAIN No to the agrofuels craze! GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focuses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels - over 30,000 words of in-depth analysis from around the world. In the process of gathering material... |
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| [REPORT] Human Rights in Brazil 2006: A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights **AVAILABLE ONLINE** |
[REPORT] Human Rights in Brazil 2006: A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights **AVAILABLE ONLINE** To access the full report, go to: http://www.social.org.br/relatorio2006ingles... |
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| [MST ANALYSIS] The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil. by João Pedro Stedile |
The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil |
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| [RADIO SPECIAL] Radio Program, Unamos Nuestras Voces, Hosts Conversation on MST |
[RADIO SPECIAL] Radio Program, Unamos Nuestras Voces, Hosts Conversation on MST Unamos Nuestras Voces, a program of 93.3 FM Campus and Community Radio, recently hosted a conversation on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and the struggle for land in Brazil. Providing historical and... |
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| [INTERVIEW] Without a Plan No President Can Rescue Brazil, Says Landless Leader |
João Pedro Stédile is an economist and a national leader of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement and is known for his acid criticism of the national elite. Together with other leaders of the social movement, he wrote the Letter to the Brazilian People, in which they demand changes in the... |
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| [REPORT] Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World |
Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World Translated from: Movimiento de los trabajadores sin tierra: la difícil construcción de un mundo nuevo. |
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| [FoodFirst Backgrounder] Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil, Spring 2003 |
Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil "Since the late 1970s, more than one million people in Brazil have transformed their lives. They have done so by organizing peaceful protests that have forced the Brazilian government to... |
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| [INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Joao Pedro Stedile |
New Left Review 15, May-June 2002 A leader of Brazil’s Sem Terra explains the history and geography of the world’s largest movement of the rural poor. How to occupy land, mobilize support, resist the... |
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| [RADIO SPECIAL] Workers & Farmers vs. Free Trade & Global Agribusiness |
[RADIO SPECIAL] Workers on the Food Chain - Workers & Farmers vs. Free Trade & Global Agribusiness Excerpts from the Cornell Global Labor Institute Forum with |
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| Via Campesina Issue Paper #5: Agrarian Reform in the Context of Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Cultural Diversity |
CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRARIAN REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUE PAPER FIVE |
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| "On the Front Line - Human Rights Defenders in Brazil, 2002 to 2005" |
"On the Front Line: Human Rights Defenders in Brazil" documents and denounces the Brazilian government's slowness, incompetence, and inefficiency in dealing with the issue. The 51 cases presented in the report are, unfortunately, only a handful of the many that threaten the defense of human... |
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| [12/13/2005] PBS Frontline/World Presents: Cutting the Wire - Witnessing a Land Occupation |
PBS Frontline/World presents "Cutting the Wire", a film documenting the occupation of a ranch outside of Sao Paulo by more than one thousand landless and poor activists organized by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). Rough Cut: Brazil: Cutting the Wire |
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| Constitutional Authority: Legality of Land Occupations |
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement#Constitutional... Brazil has one of the largest wealth gaps thoughout Latin America and the world. Approximately half of all... |
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| [INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Geraldo Fontes |
Two part Interview with Geraldo Fontes of the MST “Without depending on power or having to take power‿ Geraldo Fontes is a member of the national collective for the coordination of foreign relations for the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores... |
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| MST Audio feature by the National Radio Project |
The National Radio Project ran a feature on its program "Making Contact" on March 23, 2005. The interview is titled "Land for Those Who Work It." Brazil has the second most unequal distribution of land in the... |
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| Landless Voices Cultural Resources website |
The Landless Voices website with its "Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST" is an archive that projects the images, voices and forces of the MST. It gathers resources on the... |
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| MST Bibliography |
Bibliography: The MST and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil Adriance, Madeleine R. Terra Prometida: As Comunidades Eclesiais de Base e os Conflitos Rurais. São Paulo: Edições Paulinas, 1996. Berger, Christa. Campos em Confronto: A Terra e o Texto. Porto Alegre: Editora da... |
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| Sources for Brazilian News |
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| Land Reform, Land Bank Project, etc. |
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| Links to Social Movements and Networks |
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| Links to Brazilian Websites: MST, Workers Party (PT), dataTerra |
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http://www.internations.org/expats/home/brazil |