The Political Ecology of Education : Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement and the Politics of Knowledge Hardback
by David Meek
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Agrarian social movements are at a crossroads. Although these movements have made significant strides in advancing the concept of food sovereignty, the reality is that many of their members remain engaged in environmentally degrading forms of agriculture, and the lands they farm are increasingly unproductive.
Whether movement farmers will be able to remain living on the land, and dedicated to alternative agricultural practices, is a pressing question. The Political Ecology of Education examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless Brazilian workers in 1996.
Based on immersive fieldwork over the course of seven years, David Meek makes the provocative argument that critical forms of food systems education are integral to agrarian social movements' survival.
While the need for critical approaches is especially immediate in the Amazon, Meek's study speaks to the burgeoning attention to food systems education at various educational levels worldwide, from primary to postgraduate programs.
His book calls us to rethink the politics of the possible within these pedagogies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages, 28 illustrations
- Publisher:West Virginia University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2020
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- ISBN:9781949199758
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages, 28 illustrations
- Publisher:West Virginia University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781949199758