The Making of Resistance : Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment

This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, through collective narration and practices. With a unique empirical analysis of one particular narrative – the story of Brazil’s Landless Movement – this Briefs portrays a narrative revisited and revised by movement participants, a story revived through enactment. This Briefs addresses the increasing academic audience seeking to study, and theorize, the multi-colored phenomena of resistance and social movements. Annotation Advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged and articulated together, through collective narration and practices. With a unique empirical analysis of one particular narrative - the story of Brazil's Landless Movement - this title portrays a narrative revisited and revised by movement participants, a story revived through enactment Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Dimensions of Resistance ....Pages 1-28 In Dialogue with the Past ....Pages 29-58 The Story ....Pages 59-80 Narrative Enactment ....Pages 81-108 Making History, Making Resistance ....Pages 109-119 Back Matter....Pages 121-144 Markus Lundström. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 127-142).