'Late Mobilization': Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa

Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-146

  Baletti, Brenda ^a   Johnson, Tamara M ^a   Wolford, Wendy ^a  

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

Author keywords

'late mobilization' transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa; Central Workers' Union (CUT) and Pastoral Land Commission (CPT); From squatters to Sem Terra; Land for those who work it too south African case; Landless Peoples' Movement (LPM); LPM in international networks; Methods to rise leadership, occupations and autonomy; Strategies for success leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890709690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307191.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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