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LandlessMovementinLatinAmerica:AnAnnotatedBibliography
Greene,Shane."GettingovertheAndes:TheGeoEcoPoliticsofIndigenous
MovementsinPeru'sTwentyFirstCenturyIncaEmpire."JournalofLatin
AmericanStudies38.02(2006):32754.ABI/INFORMArchive.Web.3Nov.
2013.
ThisarticleaddressestheimportanceofanecoethnoallianceofAndeanandAmazonian
representativesneededtobeginastrongindigenousmovementinPeru.Existingscholarly
worksdeclarethatindigenousmovementarealmostentirelyabsentinPeru,butGreene
arguestheyhavearrivedatsuchaconclusionbylookingatthehistoricaldynamicofthe
indigenousAndeanregionandurbanisedcoastalregion,whileignoringtheAmazonian
region.GreenearguesthattheAmazonians'longerengagementintheglobalsphereof
indigenousandenvironmentalpoliticsplacestheminthepositionofexemplifyingindigeneity
fortheAndeans,whichcouldservetostrengthenindigenousmovementsinPeru.
Johnston,Hank,andPaulAlmeida.LatinAmericanSocialMovements:Globalization,
Democratization,andTransnationalNetworks.Lanham,MD:Rowman&
Littlefield,2006.Print.
AsacompilationofmanyessaysthisbookcoversanumberofissuesconcerningLatin
Americansocialmovements.Thebookbeginswithanoverviewofneoliberalglobalization
andpopularmovementsinLatinAmerica.Chaptersthatwillfurtherbeexploredinclude,
WendyWelfordschapteronBrazil'sLandlessMovementandthechapterontheZapatista
movementinMexico.
Moyo,Sam,andParisYeros,eds.ReclaimingtheLand:TheResurgenceofRural
MovementsinAfrica,Asia,andLatinAmerica.London:Zed,2005.Print.
Thisbookgivesacomprehensivelookatruralmovementsthroughoutthesocalled
developingworldAfrica,Asia,andLatinAmerica.Intheintroduction,theauthorsdiscuss
ruralmovementsinrelationtoMarxismandImperialism.TheLatinAmericansectionprovides
casestudiesofBrazil,ColombiaandMexico.ThechapteronBraziladdressestwo
overlappingpointsofviewoftheLandlessMovement,whilethechapteronColombiafocuses
ontheFARCandthechapteronMexicofocusesontheZapatistas.
Ondetti,GabrielA.Land,Protest,andPolitics:TheLandlessMovementandthe
Struggle
forAgrarianReforminBrazil.UniversityPark,PA:PennsylvaniaStateUP,
2008.Print.
Ondetti'sbookalsofocusesontheLandlessMovementinBrazil,however,heprovidesa
muchmorehistoricalaccountofthemovement,itsemergence,decline,andreemergence.
AlthoughhisworkassessthesuccessesoftheLandlessMovement,Ondettialsoseemstobe
muchmorecriticalofparticularactionswithinthemovement,whichisaninteresting
juxtapositiontoalotofsimilarscholarlyworksonBrazil'sLandlessMovement,whichtendto
applaudandglorifythemovement.
Teubal,Miguel."AgrarianReformandSocialMovementsintheAgeofGlobalization:
LatinAmericaattheDawnoftheTwentyfirstCentury."Trans.MarianaOrtega
Brena.LatinAmericanPerspectives36.4(2009):920.SAGE.Web.4Nov.
2013.
Thisarticlelooksatagrarianreformandsocialmovementswhichincluderuralandurban
peoples.Teubalnotesthatalthoughtheresistanceofthesemovementsisfocusedonthe
agrarianmodelpromotedbyneoliberalismthesemovementsalsoencompassavarietyof
otherdemocraticissues.Hespeaksofhowthesemovementsareautonomousanddon't
necessarilybelievepowerisnecessaryforsocialtransformation.Inaddition,peopleengaged
inthesemovementstendtoallythemselveswithantiglobalizationandenvironmental
movementsincallingforfoodsecurityandfoodsovereigntyonaglobalscale.
Wright,AngusLindsay.,andWendyWolford.ToInherittheEarth:TheLandless
MovementandtheStruggleforaNewBrazil.Oakland,CA:FoodFirst,2003.
Print.
Asstatedinthetitle,themainfocusofthisbookisBrazil.Thebooksetsuptheproblemof
inequalityandunequallanddistributionthroughtheuseofstatisticsandattemptstoaddress
possiblesolutions.Itismadeupofthreemainchapterthatprovideprovidegeographicand
historicalbackgroundofBrazilandtheLandlessMovement/MST.Thethirdchapteris
especiallyinterestingsinceitrelatestothelandlesspeopleandtheirrelationshiptotheforest.
Thelastchapterassessesthesuccesses,failuresandchallengesoftheLandless
Movement'sfirstdecade.ThebookusespersonalstoriesofpeopleinvolvedinMST
Movement,politicians,andleadersofthemovementgatheredfromfieldresearchinaddition
togeographic,historical,andstatisticaldata.