ABSTRACT
Why do Brazilian agrarian social movements institutionalize education? The institutionalization of education seems paradoxical, because institutionalization often results in the state’s co-optation and subsequent neutralization of a progressive agenda. Yet ‘Movement institutionalization does not always entail the risk of deradicalization, depoliticization, or demobilization of collective action’ (Suh 2011, 444). Social movements institutionalize their vision of education because it is part of a long-term strategy of state transformation (Poulantzas 1978; Jessop 1990; Boden 2011).
