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: Yance Arizona
Yance Arizona is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. His PhD research investigates the politics of indigeneity and legal recognition of customary land rights as a solution against land dispossession in Indonesia. He worked for ten years as an NGO activist promoting indigenous communities’ rights in Indonesia (2007-2017). He received an Indigenous Leaders Conservation Fellowship sponsored by Conservation International (2014) and a Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellowship (SYLFF) from Tokyo Foundation (2019) for conducting visiting research on customary land rights in Australia and Japan. Yance has published some books and journal articles.