In a significant milestone, we convened our first in-person General Assembly last October at the esteemed College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. The assembly was held as a pre-activity to the Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century – International Conference, a collaborative effort by COHD, The…
Month: November 2023
The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
Check out this critical new publication on “The Politics of Green Colonialism” co-edited by CASAS member Mary Ann Manahan: The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green…
Research Fellow opportunity, Summer Seminar with support for global South scholars, and Writing Workshop
We are glad to share three opportunities: a postdoctoral position in Political Ecology/Agrarian Studies at the University of Melbourne; the Summer Seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice” at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) and the South/South Writing Workshop.For more details, visit the links below:https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/seminars-2024https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/914546https://www.southsouthmovement.org/projects/south-south-writing-workshop/
Palestine: Reaffirming our commitment for a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars
Check out the English, Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese versions of our collective statement below: We, the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS), are writing this statement to express our solidarity with the People of Palestine who are currently the victims of a genocidal attack and other war crimes from Israel in Gaza…