The collective actions of agrarian socio-territorial movements and the relationship between the countryside and the cities in Brazil in 2020: the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform
Abstract
This paper discusses the socioterritorial movements’ collective action in Brazil, during the year 2020. For this, we organize and analyze the dataluta network database. In dialogue with the literature on critical agrarian studies and the spatial diversity in geographic studies, we demonstrate how the actions implemented by agrarian socioterritorial movements in cities express the current agrarian question. Urban and rural are part of a dialectical reality, and to understand them it is necessary to go beyond polarized explanations that hide the conflicts between social classes. Those actions are the result of demands that articulate urban and rural spaces such as healthy food, environmental sustainability, and labor dignity. This fact reinforces the understanding that considering these new rural and urban meanings is paramount to suppressing capitalism’s structural limits.Downloads
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2025-06-05
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Lencioni, L., Coca, E., Vinha, J., Lopes, J. P., Triviño, O., & Nascimento, R. (2025). The collective actions of agrarian socio-territorial movements and the relationship between the countryside and the cities in Brazil in 2020: the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform. Punto Sur, (12), 129-148. https://doi.org/10.34096/ps.n12.14562
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