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: 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,…
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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…
LATEST NEWS
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WEBINAR: pESTICIDES AND INEQUALITES
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu and Soledad Castro are presenting in the webinar “Pesticides and inequalities: health, knowledge and political economy” organized by The Latin-American Network on Pesticides, Health and Environmental Justice. The webinar will be moderated by another CASAS’ member Grettel Navas, and they will…
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The Political Economy of Land Grabbing and Deforestation in Times of Peace and War: Lessons from the Colombian Amazon (2016–2024)
CASAS’ member Sammy Sánchez Garavito has published this article in Spanish with Sebastián Gómez Zúñiga, Daniela Mosquera-Camacho & Daniel Ortiz Gallego in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes land grabbing and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon from a…
LATEST POSTS
- WEBINAR: pESTICIDES AND INEQUALITES
- Contract farming and social movements
- The Political Economy of Land Grabbing and Deforestation in Times of Peace and War: Lessons from the Colombian Amazon (2016–2024)
- Governing uncertainty through mobility and commoning: Lessons from transhumant pastoralism in the Argentine Andes
- The South African Negrophobia: Sub-imperial Blowback, Scapegoating and a Major Threat to Continental Unity
- When Climate Risk Meets Green Development: Rethinking Climate Justice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)