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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,butGreeneargues theyhavearrivedatsuchaconclusionbylookingatthehistoricaldynamicoftheindigenous Andeanregionandurbanisedcoastalregion,whileignoringtheAmazonianregion.Greene arguesthattheAmazonians'longerengagementintheglobalsphereofindigenousand environmentalpoliticsplacestheminthepositionofexemplifyingindigeneityfortheAndeans, whichcouldservetostrengthenindigenousmovementsinPeru. Johnston,Hank,andPaulAlmeida.LatinAmericanSocialMovements:Globalization, Democratization,andTransnationalNetworks.Lanham,MD:Rowman& Littlefield,2006.Print. AsacompilationofmanyessaysthisbookcoversanumberofissuesconcerningLatin Americansocialmovements.Thebookbeginswithanoverviewofneoliberalglobalizationand popularmovementsinLatinAmerica.Chaptersthatwillfurtherbeexploredinclude,Wendy WelfordschapteronBrazil'sLandlessMovementandthechapterontheZapatistamovementin Mexico. Moyo,Sam,andParisYeros,eds.ReclaimingtheLand:TheResurgenceofRural MovementsinAfrica,Asia,andLatinAmerica.London:Zed,2005.Print. Thisbookgivesacomprehensivelookatruralmovementsthroughoutthesocalleddeveloping worldAfrica,Asia,andLatinAmerica.Intheintroduction,theauthorsdiscussruralmovements inrelationtoMarxismandImperialism.TheLatinAmericansectionprovidescasestudiesof Brazil,ColombiaandMexico.ThechapteronBraziladdressestwooverlappingpointsofviewof theLandlessMovement,whilethechapteronColombiafocusesontheFARCandthechapter onMexicofocusesontheZapatistas.

Ondetti,GabrielA.Land,Protest,andPolitics:TheLandlessMovementandtheStruggle forAgrarianReforminBrazil.UniversityPark,PA:PennsylvaniaStateUP,2008. Print. Ondetti'sbookalsofocusesontheLandlessMovementinBrazil,however,heprovidesamuch morehistoricalaccountofthemovement,itsemergence,decline,andreemergence.Although hisworkassessthesuccessesoftheLandlessMovement,Ondettialsoseemstobemuch morecriticalofparticularactionswithinthemovement,whichisaninterestingjuxtapositiontoa lotofsimilarscholarlyworksonBrazil'sLandlessMovement,whichtendtoapplaudandglorify themovement. Teubal,Miguel."AgrarianReformandSocialMovementsintheAgeofGlobalization: LatinAmericaattheDawnoftheTwentyfirstCentury."Trans.MarianaOrtega Brena.LatinAmericanPerspectives36.4(2009):920.SAGE.Web.4Nov.2013. Thisarticlelooksatagrarianreformandsocialmovementswhichincluderuralandurban peoples.Teubalnotesthatalthoughtheresistanceofthesemovementsisfocusedonthe agrarianmodelpromotedbyneoliberalismthesemovementsalsoencompassavarietyofother democraticissues.Hespeaksofhowthesemovementsareautonomousanddon'tnecessarily believepowerisnecessaryforsocialtransformation.Inaddition,peopleengagedinthese movementstendtoallythemselveswithantiglobalizationandenvironmentalmovementsin callingforfoodsecurityandfoodsovereigntyonaglobalscale. Wright,AngusLindsay.,andWendyWolford.ToInherittheEarth:TheLandless MovementandtheStruggleforaNewBrazil.Oakland,CA:FoodFirst,2003. Print. Asstatedinthetitle,themainfocusofthisbookisBrazil.Thebooksetsuptheproblemof inequalityandunequallanddistributionthroughtheuseofstatisticsandattemptstoaddress possiblesolutions.Itismadeupofthreemainchapterthatprovideprovidegeographicand historicalbackgroundofBrazilandtheLandlessMovement/MST.Thethirdchapterisespecially interestingsinceitrelatestothelandlesspeopleandtheirrelationshiptotheforest.Thelast chapterassessesthesuccesses,failuresandchallengesoftheLandlessMovement'sfirst decade.ThebookusespersonalstoriesofpeopleinvolvedinMSTMovement,politicians,and leadersofthemovementgatheredfromfieldresearchinadditiontogeographic,historical,and statisticaldata.

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