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Institutionalizing economies of opposition: explaining and evaluating the success of the MST's cooperatives and agroecological repeasantization.
- Source :
- Journal of Peasant Studies; Nov2015, Vol. 42 Issue 6, p1087-1107, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Dominant conceptions of social movements consider their constitutive feature thedisruptionof order, not practices aroundbuildingit. In this paper, I challenge this notion by analyzing the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)'s relatively successful efforts toinstitutionalizethe practices of agricultural production developed by its members in cooperatives and agroecology. Through this analysis, I show that the movement's administration of a democratically managed form of agricultural production exemplifies a unique form of social movement resistance – namely, what I callself-governmentalresistance.Rather than reformist or revolutionary contention, self-governmental resistance – performed by movements like the MST –redevelopsstate policies by vying for and often taking control over the design and implementation of agricultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03066150
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110138383
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.991720