Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil Gabriel Ondetti

“Gabriel Ondetti has written an important book. For those interested in Brazil’s landless movement, this new and persuasive explanation of the rise of the movement combines a focus on the political opportunity structure with subjective and cultural factors left out of much mainstream analysis. For those wanting to learn about BrazilA?s agrarian reform, Ondetti provides evidence that the reform was a significant political achievement. His argument about how the landless movement avoided the Olsonian collective action problem will interest anyone curious about social science. Ondetti’s book combines, in a rare fashion, in-depth research at the grassroots level, a rigorous theoretical argument, substantial use of macro-level data, and a comparative Latin American focus. It is the best work on this topic currently available.” a??Anthony Pereira, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia A¬The Brazilian landless workers" movement has become an iconic social movement of the turn of the century. Land, Protest, and Politics provides an excellent overview of its origins and subsequent development. Ondetti brings theoretical rigor to the study of this important movement, making a compelling argument that the movement"s changing political opportunities were most important for shaping its comparative success.A® A?Kathryn Hochstetler, University of New Mexico Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz InA?cio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson’s classic economic theory of collective action. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil (Gabriel Ondetti)