The Politics of the MST
Autonomous Rural Communities, the State, and Electoral Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leandro Vergara‐camu (0000-0002-6959-9942, University of Groningen, corresponding author), Leandro Vergara-Camus (Centre for Development Studies at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 178-191 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x09338608 |
| OpenAlex | W2152143010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 23 |
Examination of the politicization of landless people in the encampments and settlements of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (Landless Rural Workers' Movement-MST) in Brazil suggests that the movement's success rest on the fact that it generates relatively autonomous rural communities organized around autonomous political structures that facilitate mobilization. These communities persist because their members, by protecting their right to land from full commoditization, ensuring an adequate production of food, and avoiding the full monetarization of their subsistence needs, are able to mitigate the effects of the market. In addition, in order to secure the survival and development of its settlements, the MST has integrated participation in institutional politics into its mobilization strategy. However, because of the nature of President Lula's policies, the continuity of the traditional alliance between the MST and the Workers' Party is bound to become a major issue
Agriculture · Alliance · Business · Commoditization · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human settlement · Market economy · Mobilization · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Rural Development and Agriculture · Urban Development and Societal Issues
Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries
Karen Kampwirth, Latin America’s New Left and the Politics of Gender
The MST and the EZLN Struggle for Land
Rightful Radical Resistance
The Political and Economic Dimensions of Everyday Life
Land, Protest, and Politics
Globalization and Its Countermovement
Latin American Identity Politics
Social Movements and Political Parties in Brazil
Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production
The cultural politics of the agroecological transition
Globalización, tierra, resistencia y autonomía
Peasant activism and the rise of food sovereignty
Human rights and collective emancipation
Autonomous peasant struggles and left arts of government
Local politics in Brazil
Landless
Emancipation in Latin America
De las rutas a las urnas. Intercambios y lealtades en el movimiento campesino paraguayo
Vernacular rights cultures and the 'Right to Have Rights
Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State
Socialist Values and Cooperation in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
Securing Social Governability
Mobilising the Periphery
Gramsci in Brazil
Estado, movimentos e reforma agrária no Brasil
Mística, myself and I
Brazil and South Africa-Exploring Movement to Movement Solidarity
Is Oil Palm Expansion a Challenge to Agroecology? Smallholders Practising Industrial Farming in Mexico
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
The Workers` Party and Democratization in Brazil
The Study of New Social Movements in Latin America and the Question of Autonomy
Disappearing Peasantries?
Social Movements
The Making of Social Movements in Latin America
Culture, Citizenship, and Democracy
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
State and Unions in the Transformation of the Brazilian Countryside, 1964-1979
Beyond the Politics of Protest
Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America
Families, Fields, And Fighting For Land
The Landless Workers' Movement and Social Struggles Against Neoliberalism
The MST Challenge to Neoliberalism
Law and Disorder
No Ordinary Revolution
Changing Before Our Very Eyes
Producing Community
Are Latin American peasant movements still a force for change? Some new paradigms revisited
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |