Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in portuguese in “Debates en Sociología”, a peruvian journal. Abstract: We analyzed the impacts of the regime change in post-2016 Brazil on patterns of activism, based on the case of the oldest confederation of rural workers in the country. Since the end of the…
Month: June 2024
Guerrillas or Peasants? Interpretation of the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in the Colombian Public Sphere
Juan Camilo Portela, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Spanish in “Debates en Sociología”. Abstract: This article addresses the processes of interpretation in the public sphere about the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in Colombia, and especially the way in which the protesters were considered authentic and legitimate. Based on a cultural sociology approach,…
When agribusiness is interested in organic production: the contradictions of the sugar cane sector in the South of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, have published with a colleague a paper in Portuguese in Boletim de Geografia. Abstract: As a contradictory and limited response to the various environmental and social liabilities that agribusiness- the current face of agrarian capitalism– has generated in recent decades, we are currently witnessing the emergence of organic production experiences by…
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in South Africa
Check the conversation with Andrew Bennie, CASAS’ member on food sovereignty and the land question in South Africa in Rosa Luxemburg Stifung: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/52081/the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty-in-south-africa
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
New publication alert! Leon Brenya Yeboah, CASAS’ member, has published with Abubakari Abdulai, Frank Kwaku Agyei & Dzigbodi Adzo Doke an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source…