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Countering Inequality: Brazil's Movimento Sem-Terra.
- Source :
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Geographical Review . Jul2015, Vol. 105 Issue 3, p263-282. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Data from a national survey of formerly landless peasants residing in federal land-reform settlements in Brazil (Pesquisa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária- PNERA) confirm that the Landless Rural Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra- MST) has been far more successful than other settlement movements in assuring a better quality of life for its members. This superior performance is attributed to an organizational structure that demands and assures membership involvement, and a commitment to participatory education in an environment that fosters and supports MST's goals and objectives. MST's members have higher self-perceived social status than members of non- MST movements, have better residential environments and more material possessions, and experience an education that emphasizes the movement's principles of social justice, radical democracy, and humanist and socialist values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167428
- Volume :
- 105
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geographical Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102915976
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12078.x