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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
offers an alternative to neoliberal educational models. The Brazilian
Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the largest social movements
in Latin America. We describe one of the many schools that the...

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
most influential social movements in Latin America. Since the very beginning
of the movement’s agrarian reform struggle, MST leaders have developed a
broad-based program of leadership, political training, and...

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,
illustrating that communities draw on a diverse set of educational theories that resonate
with local practices and beliefs to develop alternative proposals for their schools. The article
also...

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
utilize to transform public institutions. Drawing on Tilly’s concept of “regime space” as a
combination of capacity and democracy, the author analyzes the Brazilian Landless Workers
...

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
social reforms, and the challenges once they succeed. It analyzes how a strategic alliance
between the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the National
Confederation of Agricultural...

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...

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...

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...

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
developing an alternative educational proposal for rural public schools in Brazil.
This article analyzes the MST’s differential success implementing this proposal
in municipal and state public schools. The...

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
Movement (MST), a large agrarian social movement that fights for socialism in the Brazilian
countryside, meaning that workers own their own means of production and collectively produce the food and other...

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...

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
on key issues? This article centres its analysis on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais
Sem Terra (MST – Landless RuralWorkers’ Movement) and instances of the movement’s
cultural activity, in...

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
inherent in solving multi-scalar environmental issues. We explore the multiplicities of autonomy
through comparative case studies of agricultural cooperation in England, Switzerland, New...

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
Landless Rural Workers’ of Brazil—MST) occupies land and forms autonomous agricultural
communities, it aspires to achieve the supremacy of labor over capital and to embody
socialist values. However, a...

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
of family farms in three land reform settlements in
Mato Grosso, Brazil, located in the ecologically threatened
Cerrado biome. Using focus groups, a household
survey, and analysis of soil samples we characterized
farming...

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
and biodiversity conservation are intricately linked. To
date, the intersection of food security and biodiversity
conservation has been viewed primarily through an agricultural
‘‘production lens’’—for example, via the land
...

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...

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

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
developing an alternative educational proposal for rural public schools in Brazil.
This article analyzes the MST’s differential success implementing this proposal
in municipal and state public schools. The...

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 American Land issues...

[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...

[REPORT] Transnational Institute (TNI) Report: Agrofuels - Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas

Agrofuels - Towards a reality check in nine key areas
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Executive Summary
2 July 2007

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...

[REPORT] GRAIN Report: Seedling - Agrofuels Special Issue

New from GRAIN
27 June 2007

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...

[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.htm

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[MST ANALYSIS] The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil. by João Pedro Stedile

The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil
by João Pedro Stedile
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MONTHLY REVIEW
Volume 58, Number 8
February 2007
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http://www.monthlyreview.org/0207stedile.htm
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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...

[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...

[REPORT] Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World

Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World
Raúl Zibechi | September 26, 2006

Translated from: Movimiento de los trabajadores sin tierra: la difícil construcción de un mundo nuevo.
Available at:...

[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
By: Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford

"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...

[INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Joao Pedro Stedile

New Left Review 15, May-June 2002
JOÃO PEDRO STEDILE
LANDLESS BATTALIONS
The Sem Terra Movement of Brazil

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...

[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
- Prawala Anand Tatte, Shetkari Sanghatana, India
- Alberto Gomez Flores, Union of Autonomous Regional...

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
Porto Alegre, 7-10 March 2006

ISSUE PAPER FIVE
AGRARIAN REFORM IN THE CONTEXT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, THE RIGHT TO FOOD AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY: LAND, TERRITORY AND DIGNITY
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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...

    [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
    Witnessing a Land...

    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...

    [INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Geraldo Fontes

    Two part Interview with Geraldo Fontes of the MST
    The Landless Rural Workers' Movement

    “Without depending on power or having to take power‿

    Geraldo Fontes is a member of the national...

    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 world. Inside...

    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 emerging culture...

    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...

    Sources for Brazilian News

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    ENGLISH Sources
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  • Brazzil Magazine's News Links
  • Brazilink- Independent analysis and opinion on Brazil
  • The...
  • Land Reform, Land Bank Project, etc.
  • Land Research Action Network website provides news, analysis, and research on land reform and agrarian change around the world.
  • Land Rights a Fraud in Brazil: Landless...
  • Links to Social Movements and Networks
  • Via Campesina
  • Peoples' Global Action
  • Movimiento Nacional Campesino Indígena (MNCI) -- National Campesino & Indigenous Movement...
  • Links to Brazilian Websites: MST, Workers Party (PT), dataTerra
  • MST (Portugese)
  • MST/State of Pará (Portugese)
  • MST/State of Rio Grande do Sul (Portuguese)
  • ...
  • http://www.internations.org/expats/home/brazil

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