agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui has published this article with Carlos Andrés Gallegos-Riofrío, Ernesto Méndez, María Quispe, Mabel Pintag, Renato Pardo Valenzuela, Milka Caranqui, Nils McCune, Gabriela Bucini, Teresa Mares & Colin Anderson in Agriculture and Human Values. Abstract: Broad analyses of social change often overlook the lived experiences of rural Indigenous communities. This paper connects…
CASAS’ member Bosman Batubara has published this article with Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Abstract: Indonesia’s new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is…
CASAS’ member Ricardo Brito has just published this article in Novos Estudos Cebrap, both in Portuguese and English. Abstract: Through the analysis of official documents, the notion of security is identified as central to characterizing the corporate-military dictatorship. By examining the conceptions and demands put forward by rural landowners, bureaucratic technicians, and military officials, we…
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…
CASAS’ member Fizza Batool shares a note from her fieldwork in Pakistan: While sitting in the Ministry of National Food Security in Islamabad, the Food Commissioner said during the interview: “There is something called food security, and there is something else too, called food sovereignty and we have to understand both of these things.” I…