SOC-4169 Summer School : Social Movements and Cooperation in Brazil

This Summer School consists of studying social movements and their practices of cooperation, Brazilian politics and culture in general, and the Landless Rural Workers Movements (Movimento dos trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST). Students live and experience MST spaces (communities, cooperatives, schools, health clinics, encampments), observe and participate in agricultural and cooperative work, meetings and political and cultural activities. The theoretical part of the School, taught by Brazilian professors, takes place at the Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) and includes meetings with MST national leaders and other social movements from Brazil and Latin America.