In December 2020, agrarian workers laboring for different agro-export companies in various coastal areas in Peru organized protests which soon spread out to multiple regions in the country. They demanded new labor regulations able to guarantee better working conditions and real salary increases. As conversations with state authorities stalled, manifestations continued throughout the month with…
Author: Miryam Nacimento
Miryam Nacimento Born in Lima, Peru, she is a PhD student in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands. In Peru, she has worked in different capacities in various state and civil society institutions related with agrarian politics. Currently, she is the chair of the The Latinx and Latin American Students Association (AELLA) at the Graduate Center and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Drawing on perspectives from peasant politics, science and technology studies and more-than-human anthropology her research examines the agrarian dimensions of the war on drugs in Colombia. She is author of “Inercia y resistencia al cambio en las políticas de drogas: El caso de Desarrollo Alternativo en Satipo-Perú.”, Revista de Ciencia Política 3(5), pp.37-56. Her email address is mnacimentobeltran@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto
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…