Agrarian moral economies and neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing worldviews and the state in the struggle for land

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-261

  Wolford, Wendy ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; LAND TENURE; NEOLIBERALISM; PRIVATIZATION; RURAL ECONOMY;

BRAZIL; SANTA CATARINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15044338564     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3745     Document Type: Review

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