Rebecca Tarlau. Occupying schools, occupying land. How the landless workers movement transformed Brazilian education [book review]

Abstract

This magnificent volume in hardback is the product of painstaking research carried out in Brazil on the work and impact on education of one of the world's most vibrant social movements. This is the Movimento Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (literally: Movement of Landless Rural Workers, shortened as Movimento sem Terra –MST, more commonly referred to colloquially as the ‘Sem Terra’). The movement qualifies as what is often referred to, following Dip Kapoor (Kapoor, 2009), as a Southern Subaltern Social Movement. [Excerpt from the review]