We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Ísis Menezes Táboas
A Brazilian lawyer and a PhD Candidate from the University of Brasília School of Law. In this year (2019), she is a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 2015 to 2016, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasília School of Law. Ísis received her Master Degree in Human Rights and Citizenship at the University of Brasília (2014) and she was the winner of the University of Brasília Master Dissertation Prize of 2015 (Human Rights and Citizenship Modality). In 2012, she received her bachelor’s degree on Law at the São Paulo State University (UNESP). She received an International Exchange Scholarship for Low Income Student–Graduate Studies at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2011). She is author of: It’s Struggle: Peasant Feminism and the Struggle Against Violence (book–2018, in Portuguese); Feminist Legal Methods and the (Dis)cover of the Law for the Women (book chapter–2017, in Portuguese); and Communication as an Exercise of Freedom (book chapter–2016, in Portuguese). Her email address is: isistaboas@gmail.com