Essays about: "peasant movements"

Found 4 essays containing the words peasant movements.

1. 1. “Half women, half men” - A field study on gender complementarity and its impact on female participation in community politics in rural Bolivia.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Cecilia Emilsson; [2016]
   Keywords : community politics.; machismo; decolonisation; Evo Morales; Mujeres Creando; Bartolina Sisa; postcolonial feminism; peasant unions; indigenous groups; gender complementarity; Bolivia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Gender complementarity is an indigenous model of gender relations that values the female position and her tasks by tradition the same way as that of the man. The idea is that the man and woman complement each other as opposite parts of the cosmos. In Bolivia, with 65% of its population and the president being indigenous, the concept is widely used. READ MORE

3. 2. Gaining land and gaining ground? The Popular Agrarian Reform by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Camila Da Cunha Almeida Azevedo; [2015]
   Keywords : agrarian question; agrarian reform; agrarian change; rural development; peasant movements; agrarian social movements; rural politics; territorial disputes; social conflict; land struggle; land occupation; MST; Brazil; Paraná; social change; agroecology; thematic analysis; Social Sciences; Agriculture and Food Sciences;

   Abstract : The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), one of the most important movements in Brazil, known for its land occupations, recently launched proposals to implement a new Popular Agrarian Reform (PAR) project. Consequently, one must ask: is there need for agrarian reform (AR) in Brazil? This question must engage with another discussion, that of the development of capitalism in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry - the agrarian question (AQ). READ MORE

4. 3. “El río es vida” Afro-Colombian resistance to externally driven mining in the river Yurumanguí

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Karen Pfefferli; [2015]
   Keywords : resistance; mining; development; territory; black communities; Colombia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Large-scale mining has been declared to be a central development strategy of Colombia which has caused the emergence of resistance movements of peasant, ethno-territorial and indigenous groups. This study analyses the concept of resistance in the framework of the Afro-Colombian community of the river Yurumanguí. READ MORE

5. 4. Empowered or Enfeebled? A Comparative Study of Communist Land Policies in China, 1945-56

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

   Author : Fredrik Uddenfeldt; [2010]
   Keywords : Land Reform; China; CCP; Agricultural Collectivization; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis inquires into the land policies carried out by the Chinese Communist Party during the 1940’s and 50’s. Using contemporary research and original sources, the land policies of the two periods are described and compared. It is concluded that the land movements of the two periods were different in terms of both aims and outcomes. READ MORE