Brazil's landless movement and rights ‘from below’

Eric T. Hoddy; Jonathan E. Ensor

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.004

Brazil's landless movement and rights ‘from below’

Eric T. Hoddy^*, Jonathan E. Ensor

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Abstract

Recent literature has recognised the value of food sovereignty and human rights frameworks in agrarian struggles. Relatively little attention has gone toward how agrarian movements develop and apply their own rights discourses to further demands for social justice. This study considers Brazil's landless movement (MST) between 1984 and 1995, revealing three distinct rights discourses that recruited and mobilised protest by linking local issues to the movement's broader political project. The findings illustrate the value of rights, frames and ideology as analytical tools, shedding light on how movement-generated rights emerge through processes of reflexivity and in response to dynamic social-political contexts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	74-82
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Rural Studies
Volume	63
Early online date	15 Sept 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2018

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Keywords

Agrarian movements
Food sovereignty
frames
Human rights
Ideology
Neoliberalism

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