Agrarian Moral Economies and Neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing Worldviews and the State in the Struggle for Land

摘要: The 1990s was the decade of neoliberalism in Brazil. During successive administrations President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2003), public enterprises were privatized, import tariffs slashed, regional free-trade markets established, and fiscal discipline prioritized an attempt to control a massive debt. As his first term progressed, however, forced respond insistent popular demand for reform country's inequitable land-tenure structure. issue became increasingly visible because strength grassroots social movement, Movement Landless Workers (MST). In response demands agrarian reform, government offered its support essentially neoliberal, market-based alternative state-led distribution—an favored by official development organizations throughout Third World at this time. paper, I argue that market-led privileged elit...