Gabriel Bastos, from Brazil, holds Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture, and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Currently, he serves as a researcher at Germinal, an interdisciplinary research association that facilitates a dialogical exchange between popular and scientific knowledge, fostering an emancipatory process within popular groups and social movements. …
The latest volume in the ICAS small book series has just been released today: Borras and Franco (2023) Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles. It’s in paperback but also in Open Access ebook edition.This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best…
Chequen esta publicación por Saturnino Borras, Martha Carvajalino, Sergio Coronado (miembro de CASAS), Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín e Itayosara rojas Herrera (miembro de CASAS). Link: https://www.cinep.org.co/producto/reformar-la-reforma/ La reforma agraria vuelve a ser tema central en el debate político colombiano. Con un gobierno de izquierda por primera vez, existe la posibilidad de tomar medidas efectivas contra la concentración…
Check out this JPS article by Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (Sabanci University & CASAS member). Abstract: This article focuses on the particular intersection of crises and change in gender- and generation-based social reproduction with agrarian change in the form of a large-scale land grab/investment from a feminist perspective. Based on a case study, it interrogates…
The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South is a network emerging from the 2019 Journal of Peasant Studies Writeshop on Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism in Beijing, China. It expanded through its following three annual editions till 2022. Self-organized by former Writeshop participants, CASAS aims to promote scholarship and activism in critical agrarian studies…