Landless Voices: The Sights and Voices of Dispossession

The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)

This archive projects the images, voices and forces of the 15 million landless rural workers of Brazil who formally organized themselves around a social movement in 1984 - the MST (archive available in English or Português).

Expressions by the landless

Emerging culture of the MST - over 400 Sem-Terra resources across several media: music (streamed audio), dance, films (streamed video), theatre, photographs, murals, sculpture, paintings, literature, and children's compositions and drawings.

Shelter with black plastic in Cruz Alta the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Brazil cries over its 500 years of history

Resources include works by: Ademar Bogo, Ênio Bönhenberger, Aracy Cachoeira, Carlos Carvalho, Zé Pinto, João Pedro Stedile.

About the landless

Studies, statements & references - over 100 resources providing further tools for research: photographs, films (streamed video), statements by intellectuals and artists, academic papers, conference, bibliography, maps, glossary and tables.

Terra: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado

Resources include works by: Frei Betto, Chico Buarque, Haroldo de Campos, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Paulo Freire, Malcolm McNee, Tetê Moraes, Oscar Niemeyer, Sebastião Salgado, Else R P Vieira, Sávio Bones.

Research tools

Cultural categories - a set of twenty five categories for research on emerging cultures, including: culture, history, the struggle for land, encampments and resistance, settlements.

Media specificity - a view of the archive's cultural resources which foregrounds the media specificity of landless cultural expression.

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	Landless Voices hosted by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Queen Mary University Of London, UK	Project Director & Academic Editor: Else R P Vieira Web Site Producer: John Walsh Web Site created: January 2003 Last updated: July 5th 2016
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