Sociala rörelser i rörelse - En analys av de jordlösas rörelses verksamhet i civilsamhället
(2008)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis analyses the rise and fall of social movements. Social movements
functions in the civil society, by contentious collective action they form identities,
mobilize their forces and use repertoires of contentions to make new or previously
unaccepted claims. They function in a limited timeframe, sooner or later they get
institutionalized, marginalised or succumb into violence. The landless movement
in Brazil is one of the most profound social movements in the world; their major
goal is a land reform. Since the leftwing president Lula da Silva won the Brazilian
election in 2002 the president has been unable to live up to the expectations from
the landless movement about implementing a land reform. Lula has continued
with the... (More) - This thesis analyses the rise and fall of social movements. Social movements
functions in the civil society, by contentious collective action they form identities,
mobilize their forces and use repertoires of contentions to make new or previously
unaccepted claims. They function in a limited timeframe, sooner or later they get
institutionalized, marginalised or succumb into violence. The landless movement
in Brazil is one of the most profound social movements in the world; their major
goal is a land reform. Since the leftwing president Lula da Silva won the Brazilian
election in 2002 the president has been unable to live up to the expectations from
the landless movement about implementing a land reform. Lula has continued
with the neoliberal economic model and increased the production of grains for
export controlled mainly by multinational companies.
The thesis concludes that the landless movement has not been marginalised or
fallen into the logic of violence mainly due to their great mobilization strength
and their organizational impersonal structure. They have neither been able to
persuade Lula to make a land reform, mainly because their vision has turned out
to be too wide and require a complete rejection of the neoliberal market model. (Less)
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- author
- Sjöberg, John
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2008
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- social movments, the landless movement, Brazil, cycle of contention, civil society, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1318377
- date added to LUP
- 2008-06-16 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2008-06-16 00:00:00
@misc{1318377,
abstract = {{This thesis analyses the rise and fall of social movements. Social movements
functions in the civil society, by contentious collective action they form identities,
mobilize their forces and use repertoires of contentions to make new or previously
unaccepted claims. They function in a limited timeframe, sooner or later they get
institutionalized, marginalised or succumb into violence. The landless movement
in Brazil is one of the most profound social movements in the world; their major
goal is a land reform. Since the leftwing president Lula da Silva won the Brazilian
election in 2002 the president has been unable to live up to the expectations from
the landless movement about implementing a land reform. Lula has continued
with the neoliberal economic model and increased the production of grains for
export controlled mainly by multinational companies.
The thesis concludes that the landless movement has not been marginalised or
fallen into the logic of violence mainly due to their great mobilization strength
and their organizational impersonal structure. They have neither been able to
persuade Lula to make a land reform, mainly because their vision has turned out
to be too wide and require a complete rejection of the neoliberal market model.}},
author = {{Sjöberg, John}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sociala rörelser i rörelse - En analys av de jordlösas rörelses verksamhet i civilsamhället}},
year = {{2008}},
}