timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
Check out this new article by Ricardo Barbosa Jr, Estevan Coca (CASAS member), and Gabriel Soyer. School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have hindered students’ food access, particularly low-income students who rely on schools for their primary daily meals. School food programmes have adapted to pandemic conditions by providing school food at home (SF@H). We…
I was part of the 2020 JPS writeshop (a fantastic experience!) and have collaborated with CASAS since then. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Portland State University and was a professor at the Department of Sociology from 2016 to 2019. Since 2021, I have been an associate researcher at the University Program of Bioethics…
Check out this new article by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member), María Guadalupe Lamisón and María Virginia Nessi. To face increasingly exclusive development models, collective and self-managing forms of production, work and access to food have appeared. In this article, we seek to understand how identity and organizational processes contribute to the persistence of these experiences…
Carlos Bolomey Córdova is a rural sociologist based in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University, UK. His interests lie at the intersection of family farming, agrarian change, agri-food systems, and ethnography. He has extensive experience conducting ethnographic and collaborative work within indigenous territories in Southern Chile. During his PhD, he researched farmers’ and…
Check out this new article by Mariana Reinach, from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and CASAS member. The article denounces that the indigenous Xokleng people of Brazil suffered death threats, discrimination, physical and verbal aggression from the population and municipal authorities of Rio do Oeste (Santa Catarina) when they opposed the…