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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Sociology, 2009. / "May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/18/2009) Advisor, Rudy Fenwick; Committee members, Karl Kaltenthaler, Jerry Lewis, Brent Teasdale; Department Chair, John Zipp; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-03-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:48:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mafort_kco_me_arafcl.pdf: 999300 bytes, checksum: fc655610cc2540faa7f0aba7355f78e5 (MD5) / Procuro investigar as implicações sociais da hegemonia do agronegócio no campo brasileiro e sua relação com a perspectiva da realização de um amplo programa de Reforma Agrária. Para tal, desenvolvo uma pesquisa sobre um caso específico: a luta das mulheres da Via Campesina contra o grupo Cosan, colocando em evidência as tensões existentes entre dois projetos antagônicos. Analiso a questão a partir de um referencial teórico, cujo eixo central, foi delimitado anteriormente no projeto de pesquisa. Problematizo como a modernização conservadora, desenvolvida no período da Ditadura Militar, efetivou-se como uma resposta à questão da Reforma Agrária, que havia sido muito fomentada no período anterior. Procuro demonstrar como a modernização conservadora foi fundamental para desenvolver as bases da hegemonia atual no campo brasileiro: o agronegócio. Nesse contexto, a questão da Reforma Agrária, como uma possibilidade de desenvolvimento do capitalismo no campo, foi sendo superada. Diante disso, a Reforma Agrária pode ficar como uma tarefa para traz ou pode ser resignificada, trazendo novo sentido para a sociedade. Ambos os caminhos estão se defrontando na atualidade. Para entender o movimento do capital na agricultura, analiso o setor sucroenergético e mais especificamente, o caso da fusão entre as empresas Cosan e Shell, que deu inicio a criação do grupo Raízen. Procuro o sentido da Reforma Agrária resignificada através das ações desenvolvidas pelas mulheres da Via Campesina no período do dia internacional das mulheres. Tais lutas vinculam a conquista da Reforma Agrária ao enfrentamento contundente ao capital / Seeking to investigate the social implications of the hegemony of agribusiness in the Brazilian countryside and its relationship with the prospect of carrying out an extensive program of land reform. To this end, I develop a search on a specific case: the struggle of women of Via Campesina against the group Cosan, highlighting the tensions between two opposing designs. I analyze the issue from a theoretical framework whose central axis was defined previously in the research project. I discuss how the conservative modernization, developed during the military dictatorship, was accomplished as an answer to the question of land reform, which had been very encouraged in the previous period. Seeking to demonstrate how the conservative modernization was essential to develop the foundations of the current hegemony in the Brazilian countryside: agribusiness. In this context, the issue of land reform, as a possibility of development of capitalism in the countryside, was being overcome. Therefore, the Agrarian Reform can get a job as backwards or can be resignified, bringing new meaning to society. Both paths are facing today. To understand the movement of capital in agriculture, analyze the sugarcane industry and more specifically, the case of the merger between Cosan and Shell, who launched the creation of Raizen group. Seeking the meaning of Agrarian Reform resignified through the actions undertaken by the women of Via Campesina during the international day of women. Such struggles bind the conquest of Agrarian Reform to facing scathing capital

Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, this research undertakes a case study of the online progressive blogosphere as a social movement. Previous research into social movement applications of the Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) focuses on "street" movement application of Internet resources. These studies find that though Internet applications are a boon to movements, they offer nothing novel, instead allowing movements to perform normal tasks at a faster rate. More recently, scholars have begun to examine movements with stronger roots in the online world, or "e-movements." Earl and Schussman (2003, 2004) assert that not only do unique e-movements exist, but that they have important substantial differences from street movements. This research examines the progressive blogosphere (PB) as one of these e-movements. I examine the movement activity of the PB through the lens of framing and New Social Movements (NSM) in order to gain insight to where e-movements fit within our current knowledge structures. In the end, I find that though decentralized and informal, the PB movement utilizes existing framing tasks and processes in order to mobilize passive readers into active users. After analyzing the PB movements' identity construction, mobilization techniques, goals, and leadership structures, I propose the existence of a "user-based model" for e-movements.