The Political Ecology of Education: Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Politics of Knowledge

by David Meek

The Political Ecology of Education examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on immersive fieldwork over the course of seven years, David Meek makes the provocative argument that critical forms of food systems education are integral to agrarian social movements' survival. While the need for critical approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199754
• ISBN13: 9781949199758
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"