This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

by Wendy Wolford

Book Overview

In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her argument by analyzing how a particular social movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345390
• ISBN13: 9780822345398
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"