CASAS
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Water is more than a resource: Indigenous Peoples and the right to water
New publication alert! Tania Eulalia Martínez-Cruz, CASAS’ member, has just published with Levi Adelman, Luisa Castañeda Quintana and Darío Mejía-Montalvo an article in Social Sciences & Humanities Open. Abstract: Dominant narratives and policy processes addressing water insecurity, such as the Water Action Decade 2018–2028, usually neglect the power asymmetries underlying that insecurity. In this paper, we argue that the water…
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Food self-provisioning: Implications for sustainable agroecological transition in rural Nigeria
Chuwuma Ume, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published an article in Heliyon Journal. Abstract: Agroecology is a sustainable farming method that has the potential to revolutionize the global agricultural sector by promoting cleaner and more environmentally friendly practices. However, the question of how to effectively transition to a sustainable agroecology system remains a topic…
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Rural Unions and Brazil’s Turn to the Right: Public and Semi-public Action
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…
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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,…