EMERGING LEADERS IN THE AMERICAS PROGRAM (ELAP) The ELAP scholarships provide students from post-secondary institutions located in Latin America and the Caribbean with short-term research exchange opportunities in Canadian post-secondary institutions. Candidates must be citizens of an eligible country/territory: For more info, please visit: http://www.sfu.ca/international/index/funding/other-funding-opportunities/elap.html P.S. Gerardo Otero is willing to accept a student in the…
Angela Serrano is a Colombian sociologist doing research at the intersection of global value chains, labor movements and political ecology. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Universidad de los Andes where she teaches courses on agrofood systems, Latin American studies, politically-engaged research, and research methods. Angela studies how different global industries shape life…
What is the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Approach (SRLA) and what is it good for – and what not? In this episode we are joined by Ian Scoones in conversation about this approach which he has been centrally involved in elaborating. Unlike political economy, the SRLA is not, and cannot provide, a theoretical framework, in that it does not contain…
I’m Mercedes Ejarque, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina and a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I’m a sociologist and hold a Master’s Degree in Social Research and a PhD in Social Sciences. I participated in the 2020 JPS Writeshop and became a CASAS…
Boaventura Monjane (from Mozambique) holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the RLS….