Pathways to Utopia: Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil

by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

Through collective occupation and unrelenting work for social justice, more than 450,000 Brazilian families in the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) have gained the security of a place to call home. MST members have endured years of painfully slow progress since settling on lands deemed unproductive by the federal government, where they lobby for legal autonomy, usage rights to the lands they occupy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025307374X
• ISBN13: 9780253073747
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages