2009
DOI: 10.1590/s1981-81222009000200003
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"The dream of making a living from the land": Amazon settler women as change agents

Abstract: Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of women in the so called caminhada (march) to a land reform project in the State of Pará, Brazil. When a woman decides to join the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) (Landless Workers' Movement) she may enter into conflict with her social environment. In the light of the changes happening due to her militancy, I want to elucidate the reasons for her involvement, examine female contributions during the settlement process and the change… Show more

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“…MST has participated in the broad, alter-globalization movement (Karriem and Benjamin 2016) and more recently in urban, radical-democracy mobilizations (Vanden 2014). Furthermore, and perhaps most notably, Brazil's Landless Movement has quite actively adopted an explicit, feminist agenda, seeking to restrain social tendencies of male domination (Silva 2004;Naase 2009). But MST's political context also contains a fast-growing Animal Liberation Movement (Levai 2013;Barboza 2017;Freire 2017), one that has been particularly active in southern Brazil (Carbornar de Souza 2016).…”
Section: "Not Much Of a Life Is It?"mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…MST has participated in the broad, alter-globalization movement (Karriem and Benjamin 2016) and more recently in urban, radical-democracy mobilizations (Vanden 2014). Furthermore, and perhaps most notably, Brazil's Landless Movement has quite actively adopted an explicit, feminist agenda, seeking to restrain social tendencies of male domination (Silva 2004;Naase 2009). But MST's political context also contains a fast-growing Animal Liberation Movement (Levai 2013;Barboza 2017;Freire 2017), one that has been particularly active in southern Brazil (Carbornar de Souza 2016).…”
Section: "Not Much Of a Life Is It?"mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nesse contexto, o horizonte de decisões dos trabalhadores rurais não é regido, obrigatoriamente, pela permanência no lugar e pela dedicação exclusiva a atividades agropecuárias, pois as pessoas contam com experiências migratórias e empregos anteriores em diversos setores, inclusive urbanos. Tornar-se assentado parece ser uma oportunidade entre outras (Naase, 2009).…”
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