Decolonising Social Movements in Latin America: An Approach over the Internationalization of the Landless Workers Movement (MST)

Along with the historical brutality and devastation catalyzed by the diffusion of the modern/colonial, the social movements, however, consolidate new dimensions of their own senses reinvented in the circumstances and, as established by Porto-Gonçalves (2006, 25), ‘they resist because they exist; therefore re-exist’. The Latin America driving forces of social movements for territorial struggles are interconnected along collective trajectories in the confrontation of capitalist globalization’s predatory effects. Regarding the peasant movement that will be discussed in this paper, more specifically the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), it is important to note that MST has been at the forefront of re-existence to the modern/colonial ties, capitalism and deterritorialization (Porto-Gonçalves 2006). RETRIEVED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE
Author(s): Ellen Monielle do Vale Silva, Guilherme de Lima Souza
Date Published: 2022

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