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? Tamara Wattnem
CASAS’ member Tamara A. Wattnem is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Trinity University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she specialized in the sociology of development, environmental sociology, and critical agrarian studies. Her research explores the politics and implications of the deepening of extractivism in Latin America.
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Who is who in CASAS: Amrita Sharma
Amrita Sharma is an Associate Professor at O P Jindal Global University in Haryana, India. She teaches political studies and works across political economy, political anthropology, political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and political geography. Her research examines the everyday politics of conflicts, resistance, and social movements, with a sustained focus on sovereignty, development, extractivism, nationalism,…
LATEST NEWS
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The modernizing project in Manabí’s agriculture and the specificities of peasant family farming
David Singaña Tapia (CASAS’ member) has published “The modernizing project in Manabí’s agriculture and the specificities of peasant family farming” in “Chungara”. The article, written in Spanish, analyzes how the agricultural sector in Manabí, a historical pillar of the economy, is shaped by the corporate…
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Book review: ‘Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa’ By Aaron Eddens
CASAS’ member George Mudimu has reviewed this book for The Journal of Agrarian Change. In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens critically examines how governments and philanthrocapitalists from the global North have shaped agricultural development in the South. Specifically, Eddens focuses on the maize seed industry in…
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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- The modernizing project in Manabí’s agriculture and the specificities of peasant family farming
- Book review: ‘Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa’ By Aaron Eddens
- Agrarian Social Movements and the Challenge to Corporate Power in Food and Agriculture Systems in Southern Africa
- From One River to Another
- From co-presence to zoning: Dayak Iban–orangutan relations and everyday territorialization in West Kalimantan
- Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India’s Political Forests