Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

How the Landless Workers' Movement Transformed Brazilian Education

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Rebecca Tarlau, Stanford University) Tarlau, Rebecca (Postdoctoral Scholar in Education, Postdoctoral Scholar in Education, Tarlau, TARLAU

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Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers. The movement has also linked education reform to its vision for agrarian reform by developing pedagogical practices for schools that foster activism, direct democracy, and collective forms of work. In Occupying Schools, Occupying Land, Rebecca Tarlau explores how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational program in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students. Contrary to the belief that movements cannot engage the state without demobilizing, Tarlau shows how educational institutions can help movements recruit new activists, diversify their membership, increase technical knowledge, and garner political power. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic field work, Tarlau documents how the MST operates in different regions working at times with or through the state, at other times outside it and despite it. She argues that activists are most effective using contentious co-governance, combining disruption and public protest with institutional pressure to defend and further their goals. Through an examination of the potentials, constraints, failures, and contradictions of the MST's educational struggle, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land offers insights into the relationship between education and social change, social movements and states, and the barriers and possibilities for similar reforms in democratic contexts throughout the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-20
Mått236 x 157 x 38 mm
Vikt703 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal and Comparative Ethnography
Antal sidor416
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190870324
UtmärkelserWinner of the 2020 American Political Science Association Michael Harrington Book Award Winner of the 2020 American Sociology Association Sociology of Development Book Award Winner of the 2020 Comparative and International Education Society Globalization and Education SIG Book Award Winner of the 2020 LASA Brazil Section Best Book Prize in the Social Sciences Winner of 2019 BRASA Robert Reis Best Book Award

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Acknowledgments List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Constructing a National Educational Program 1. Pedagogical Experiments in the Brazilian Countryside 2. Transforming Universities to Build a Movement: The Case of PRONERA 3. From the Pedagogy of the MST to Educação do Campo: Expansion, Transformation, and Compromise Part Two: Regional Cases of Contentious Co-Governance of Public Education4. Rio Grande do Sul: Political Regimes and Social Movement Co-Governance 5. Pernambuco: Patronage, Leadership, and Educational Change 6. Ceará: The Influence of National Advocacy on Regional Trajectories ConclusionEpilogueAppendix A: Manifesto of Educators of Agrarian Reform, July 1997 Appendix B: Curriculum of the University of Ijuí Pedagogy of Land Program (1998-2001) Appendix C: Curriculum of the UNESP PRONERA Geography Program (2007-2011) Appendix D: Fourth National Seminar on PRONERA Final Document, November 2010 Appendix E: Manifesto of Educators of Agrarian Reform, September 2015 Glossary of Portuguese Terms Notes References Index

This is a brilliant book by a brilliant young scholar. It is one of the finest studies available on the Brazilian Landless Movement (the MST), perfectly balancing rigorous comparative institutional analysis with an activist's appreciation for social justice and an ethnographer's attention to detail. Tarlau captures nicely the complexity of the political landscape in Brazil, and she makes a compelling argument for the underappreciated role that education can play in institutionalizing social mobilization