Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism

Land and Freedom is a unique comparison done in a systematic and theoretically-advanced way. It compares MST and the Zapatistas along a number of key themes, such as their socio-economic situations, strategies, gender transformation, relationship to land, and alternative institution-building. The study builds on its own empirical fieldwork data, as well as an interrogation of much of the existing literature. The voices of the activists are present and illustrate the analysis throughout the book in a way that builds confidence.