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The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is starting a new programme of funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South. The purpose of these Fellowships is to provide opportunities for scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to exchange ideas…
Ali D. Kaba is a Ph.D. student at American University. His research interests include the political economy of customary land and resource governance, with a focus on territoriality, identity, peace, conflict, and sustainability. Ali previously worked as a Program Director and Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), a Liberian-based NGO committed to transforming…
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are convening an international gathering in October in Beijing, China to critically analyze ecological…
More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and displacement…
31 CASAS members co-authored this piece just published by the Journal of Peasant Studies in its Commentary section! It’s our contribution on a much needed debate for transforming critical agrarian studies through solidarity, scholar-activist and emancipatory agendas! Abstract: This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global…