Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-758434-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Global and Comparative Ethnography

Winner of the 2020 ASA Sociology of Development Book Award
Winner of the 2020 APSA Michael Harrington Book Award
Winner of the 2020 Comparative and International Education Society Globalization and Education Book Award
Winner of the 2020 Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Best Book Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner of 2019 Robert Reis Best Book Award

Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers. 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. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic field work, Tarlau documents how the MST operates in different regions. 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, this book 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarlau, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Tarlau is Assistant Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University. She is affiliated with the Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program, the Comparative and International Education program, and the Center for Global Workers' Rights.