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dc.contributor.authorHoutzager, Peter P.
dc.coverage.spatialBrazilen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T12:36:42Z
dc.date.available2014-06-27T12:36:42Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationHoutzager, P.P. (2005) The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the juridical field in Brazil. Working paper series, 248. Brighton: IDS.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4112
dc.description.abstractWhat modalities of legal change can social movements set in motion to diminish systemic and durable forms of social exclusion? This paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) in Brazil, which through a number of legal strategies has helped produce watershed high court rulings, contributed to the process of constitutionalising law, and made access to land more equitable in parts of Brazil by redefining property rights in practice. The paper explores legal change triggered by the strategic action through what Bourdieu (1987) calls the juridical field. The MST has been successful in pushing forward legal change through this field, I argue, for two broad reasons. First, it has a remarkable ability to concentrate the talents of diverse juridical actors – lawyers, judges, law school professors – on defending its claims. This ability has been built by mobilising across multiple fields, including the political, and not just in the juridical field. Second, the movement’s capacity for strategic legal action, and the impact of such action, has been contingent on substantial changes during the 1990s in both the social movement and juridical fields triggered by the unfolding of the country’s democratic transition and shifts in the transnational Catholic Church. Keywords: access to justice, social movement, Movement of the Landless (MST), Brazil, property rightsen_GB
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dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS working papers;248
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.subjectRightsen_GB
dc.subjectSocial Protectionen_GB
dc.titleThe Movement of the Landless (MST) and the juridical field in Brazilen_GB
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB
dc.identifier.koha154391


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