Brazil: One Hundred Years of the Agrarian Question
Author(s)
Reis, Elisa P.
Abstract
Return to a civilian government in 1985 produced pressure for agrarian reform in Brazil, yet opposition remains stronger than the reform movement. Land disputes and rural violence have increased, and law enforcement in frontier areas is problematic. Rural areas face more barriers to the political arena than urbanites. While some maintain peasants are historic victims of modernization, responsible social science must propose more sophisticated alternatives than obliteration.
