Landless: Meanings and Transformations of a Collective Action Category in Brazil

Marcelo C. Rosa

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, vol. 1, issue 2, 205-231

Abstract: This article identifies the historical process through which the social category of the ‘landless’ was produced in Brazil, as well as the subsequent growth of a social movement claiming this category, between 1960 and 1980. The article analyzes two moments in which the landless appear, the first being the governorship of Leonel Brizola in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1960s; and the second, the occupations that occurred in the same state between 1978 and 1980, culminating in the birth of the MST (Landless Rural Workers’ Movement). These cases demonstrate that collective action involving the landless shaped government responses and, furthermore, that the mobilization of the category has presupposed the mobilization of the state.

Keywords: landless; MST; rural social movements; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/227797601200100204

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