Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin AmericaSam Moyo, Paris Yeros Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three continents - Africa, Latin America and Asia - an intellectually consistent set of original investigations into this new generation of rural social movements. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Resurgence of Rural Movements | 8 |
Rural Land and Land Conflicts in SubSaharan Africa | 67 |
Challenging | 118 |
S Land Occupations in South Africa | 142 |
Overview of Selected | 209 |
Experiences | 235 |
ΙΟ The Dynamics of Land Occupations in Latin America | 285 |
The Agrarian Question and Armed Struggle | 359 |
Notes on Contributors | 411 |