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The Political Ecology of Education : Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Politics of Knowledge /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meek, David (Assistant professor) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 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"--
Notas:Revised edition of author's doctoral thesis: Movements in Education : the Political Ecology of Education in the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (269 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781949199772