"'The master's tools': Bolivia's landless peasant movement, the international legal turn, and the possibilities and perils of law-based resistance to neoliberalism"

Thesis

A perennial question amongst social movement strategists is to what extent movements can use the tools of the system they are struggling against in their efforts to change that system. Whilst this debate traditionally distinguishes between two camps – radical and reformist approaches – this thesis investigates one movement that breaks this mould. The thesis uses the example of Bolivia's Landless Peasants' Movement (MST) to intervene into renewed theoretical discussion about the possibili...

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Authors: Brabazon, H

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: law; social movements; neoliberalism; Bolivia; Landless Peasants' Movement
• Subjects: Legal philosophy; Social Inequality; Socio-legal studies; Public policy; Political ideologies; Latin America; Social justice; Global economic governance