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The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day

The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day

Foweraker, J.
Foweraker, Joe
Knight, Alan

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies, Book 39

EconomicsGeography

ISBN10: 0521526000
ISBN13: 9780521526005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and dynamics of the struggle. It is his contention that the process can only be understood in relation to the patterns of economic accumulation in the national society and to the typical forms of political intervention on the frontier. In this way the argument moves beyond descriptive, moral or realpolitik explanations of the political violence and bureaucratic malpractice on the frontier, and integrates these elements into a theoretical account of accumulation and class struggle on the frontier, and of the characteristic mediations of this struggle.

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