Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Bernardo Mançano [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T15:15:20Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T15:15:20Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe Landless Rural Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)) is widely recognized for its struggles for land and for producing healthy food. Since its birth, 40 years ago, the MST has continued to territorialize itself, producing its own existence. There are hundreds of thousands of families fighting for the peasant condition, which is much more than fighting for land. In this article, I argue that MST members are not simply fighting for land in isolated agrarian reform settlements. Rather, as the mística suggests, they are producing new understandings, practices, and imaginaries of the Brazilian national space. Through their mobilization, their labor on the land, and their solidarity as expressed in countless meetings, marches, and collective organizations, they are actively producing alternative territories that sit within but resist the hegemonic national territory. I incorporate theories from critical human geography to argue that territory is a category that unites land and governance. Territorial control is established by (depends on) the norms, rules, and rights in any given place and time. Within the context of the modern nation-state, the MST can be understood as producing new territories, ones that are aspirational and emerging—I call these “territories of hope” to signal the material and symbolic labor of collective desire. These territories are constituted through relations within MST settlements and between MST members and the state, agribusiness corporations, and the broader public across various spatial and temporal dimensions and scales.en
dc.description.affiliationSão Paulo State University
dc.description.affiliationUnespSão Paulo State University
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25148486221135303
dc.identifier.citationEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/25148486221135303
dc.identifier.issn2514-8494
dc.identifier.issn2514-8486
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85142759795
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/249411
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectagribusiness
dc.subjectagroecology
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectPeasant
dc.subjectresistance
dc.subjectterritory of hope
dc.titleTerritories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazilen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-6521-8949[1]
unesp.departmentGeografia - FCTpt

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