Accumulation by agricultural extension: Freedom and financial extractivism among Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST)

Author(s):  
Jonathan DeVore
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa

This article analyzes the dilemmas faced by peasant movements in Brazil during the “progressive governments” and the return of the right to power. To this end, it analyzes the case of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in two scenarios of recent political history. The first is that of the progressive governments, characterized by a simultaneous opening of public space and public policies to popular movements, although at the same time and contradictorily, also to the private sector linked to financial and transnational capital. The second scenario is that of the rise of the far right to power, first through a parliamentary coup d’état, and then by an electoral process. O artigo analisa os dilemas enfrentados pelos movimentos camponeses no Brasil durante os “governos progressistas” e no retorno das direitas ao poder. Para tanto, se analisa o caso do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em dois cenários da história política recente: o primeiro, no marco dos governos progressistas, caracterizado por uma abertura do espaço público, no campo das políticas públicas, aos movimentos populares, ainda que ao mesmo tempo e de maneira contraditória, também ao setor privado vinculado ao capital financeiro e transnacional. O segundo cenário é o da ascensão, mediante um golpe de Estado parlamentário, seguido de processo eleitoral, da direita ao poder.


2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Fátima Schwendler ◽  
Lucia Amaranta Thompson

Author(s):  
Maria Chaves

The article deals with the emergence in Brazil of a new type of museum: the Museum of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). We discuss this sense as well as the social and political need and eplain that this type of museums may have a major significance for the country. We show that this new design museum, also emerged from the new museology. Keywords: MST Museum; memory of struggle; museology; agrarian reform; social development.


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