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This Land Is Ours Now: Spatial Imaginaries and the Struggle for Land in Brazil

Wendy Wolford University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pages 409-424 | Received 01 Nov 2001, Accepted 01 May 2003, Published online: 29 Feb 2008

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