It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
Author: María-Clara Torres
María-Clara Torres holds a PhD in history from Stony Brook University, New York. Her ethnographical and historical research on coca peasants in Colombia has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Inter-American Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and CLACSO. She is the author of the chapter “The Making of a Coca Frontier” published in the book The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development Programs in the Amazon Andes (Routledge 2018). She is also the author of the book Coca y Estado en la frontera colombiana (Cinep 2011). Prior to her PhD, she worked for a decade in several coca-growing regions.