The espiral of occupation areas

Abstract

In her book The Spiral of Land Occupations, Nashieli Rangel Loera shows the meanings and motives of people who – although coordinated by the discipline and values of a social organization, in this case the Landless Movement (MST) – occupy land to carry out dreams and have prospects of “gaining the land, maneuvering it”, “having a little piece of land and freedom”. For the social agents involved, the realization of dreams and the conquest of ideals occur from collective and individual struggles, similar and singular, amalgamated in the construction and reproduction of differentiated spaces, but with a similar format, the camp form.