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Bucknell University
Publication Date
Spring 2007
Abstract
The following is an ethnographic account of the motivations, attitudes, and ideology of several residents of Lenin Paz II, a Brazilian land-reform settlement in the northeastern state of Ceará. The particular focus of the study is on the reasons these individuals decided to get involved with the social movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) that brought them to the settlement after a 2-3 year process of land occupation. Theoretically, the paper focuses on the development of a collective sense of social or class consciousness amongst the landless who were interviewed, drawing heavily on James Scott’s theory of resistance outlined in Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.
Disciplines
Demography, Population, and Ecology | Inequality and Stratification | Politics and Social Change
Recommended Citation
Cole, Andrew, "Struggle, Revolution, and the MST: Reflections on the Meaning of Resistance" (2007). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 245.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/245
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Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons
Program Name
Brazil: Culture, Development, and Social Justice