Land and Freedom
The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2707682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leandro Vergara-Camus, Leandro Vergara‐Camus |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Land and Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Zed Books (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350220980 |
| OpenAlex | W4250490938 |
| Open Library | OL51662416M |
| ISBN | 9781350220980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved for their members in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to the rise of a viable alternative? Through a perfect balance of grassroots testimonies, participative observation and consideration of key debates in development studies, agrarian political economy, historical sociology and critical political economy, Land and Freedom compares, for the first time, the Zapatista and MST movements. Casting a spotlight on their resistance to globalizing market forces, Vergara-Camus gets to the heart of how these movements organize themselves and how territorial control, politicization and empowerment of their membership and the decommodification of social relations are key to understanding their radical development potential
Between Autonomy and Dependency
Authorial and Responsive Discretion
Studying the Worldeater(s)
Struggles for Livelihood and the Environment
Food Democracy as ‘Radical’ Food Sovereignty
Territories in contestation
Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Anti-Eurocentric Historicism
The rise of LGBT representation in the Landless Workers’ movement in Brazil
Power, Resistance and Development in the Global South
What’s wrong with permaculture design courses? Brazilian lessons for agroecological movement-building in Canada
Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Latin America
From autonomous to autonomist geographies
Land and freedom
An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics
Capitalism, imperialism, nationalism
The ABC of resistance
Autonomy and repeasantization
Autonomy as a third mode of ordering
From survival to self‐governance
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements
Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America
Peasant Resistance in Burkina Faso's Cotton Sector
Northern theories, Southern movements? Contentious politics in Africa through the lens of social movement theory
Populism, extractivism, and the social transformation of Brazil
Neo-extractivism and the new Latin American developmentalism
Theory and practice of labour-centred development
The Landless Workers Movement’s itinerant schools
Take or Reject State Power? The Dual Dilemma for Teachers’ Unions in Brazil and Mexico
Contentious Cogovernance and Prefiguration
MST's Arvoredo app
From hostile skepticism to strategic utilization
Emancipatory Rural Politics in Latin America 2010-2020
Conceptions and Practices of Autonomy among Indigenous and Peasant Movements in Latin America
Social Movements in Latin America
Social Movement Consolidation and Strategic Shifts
Occupying Paulista
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Degrowth Horizon
Mobilising the Periphery
Gramsci in Brazil
The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil
Labour as a Commons
The agrarian political economy of left-wing governments in Latin America
Agribusiness, peasants, left-wing governments, and the state in Latin America
The political economy of land struggle in Brazil under Workers' Party governments
The political economy of the agro-export boom under the Kirchners
Neo-developmentalism and a "vía campesina" for rural development
Who grabs the land? Unveiling the role of domestic actors in the global land rush
Updating Karl Polanyi's 'double movement' for critical agrarian studies
Resisting, leveraging, and reworking climate change adaptation projects from below
Agroecological practices as territorial development
Authoritarian populism and neo-extractivism in Bolivia and Ecuador
Contraplantation, prison, and capitalist annihilation
Resistance, class struggle and social movements in Latin America
The land exclusion dilemma and Sumatra's agrarian reactionaries
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |