CASAS
Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
CASAS is a community of scholar-activists from the Global South working in agrarian studies. It is a network emerging from the 2019 Journal of Peasant Studies Writeshop on Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism in Beijing. It has expanded through subsequent editions, and it is self-organised by Writeshop participants.
CASAS promotes scholarship and activism in critical agrarian studies and alternative ways of navigating the structural barriers in academia by following principles of solidarity and mutual care.
Members’ Spotlight
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Who is who in CASAS: Michelle Escobar Cruz
Michelle Escobar Cruz is an economist, holding a Master of Science in Rural Development, and she is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Science. Michelle was raised by her afrodescendant grandmother in a village in Chiapas, México, where her great-grandmother was a traditional doctor supporting well-being and health of many community members. From there, Michelle’s curiosity…
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Who is who in CASAS: Bruno Prado
Bruno Prado is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA) at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He works as programme coordinator in AS-PTA Agroecology and Family Farming and is a member of the Working Group in Climate Justice & Agroecology within the…
LATEST NEWS
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LVC’s Global Solidarity Campaign: “Against the blockade! Peasant Solidarity, Agroecology and Food Sovereignty!”
As CASAS, we are sharing the efforts of our ally, La Via Campesina (LCV), in their call for Global Solidarity with the Cuban peasantry. Cuba is in the grip of a punishing economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for over 60…
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8° International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
From July 1 to 10, the 8th International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism took place in Beijing. The Writeshop is organised by The Journal of Peasant Studies, the College of Humanities and Development Studies of China Agricultural University, the Erasmus Distinguished Professor Program,…
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Fundraiser for artivist Boy Dominguez
CASAS supports the personal appeal from the Journal of Peasant Studies’ editors to help with fundraising efforts for Filipino artivist Boy Dominguez, whose art has also been featured on our website (picture above). Boy Dominguez (BoyD) has been creating the cover art for JPS since…
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
LATEST POSTS
- LVC’s Global Solidarity Campaign: “Against the blockade! Peasant Solidarity, Agroecology and Food Sovereignty!”
- Epistemic evictions of nomadic pastoralists: policy promises for the children of the Bakarwal tribe in Jammu & Kashmir
- Who is who in CASAS: Michelle Escobar Cruz
- Food sovereignty, capitalism and migrant workers
- Agroecology, ubuntu, and indigenous knowledge: reviving cultural and ecological resilience in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe
- Industrie and Al-Industriyya: Translating “Industrialization” in 1860s Egypt