My name is Isabel Güiza-Gómez and I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (U.S.), a doctoral affiliate to the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab hosted at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and a research associate to Dejusticia (Colombia). My research agenda includes rural-poor…
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timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today by Jun Borras
As you know, 31 January 2023 is Jun’s last day as Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies after 15 years working for the journal. This year is also the 50th anniversary of JPS! We want to share with you Jun’s reflection paper recently released on how JPS and Critical Agrarian Studies have shaped each…
4th Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism, PLAAS, Cape Town
Pictures! The 4th Writeshop was a great and very happy experience, full of interesting discussions, hard work, and amazing visits to collectives struggling for land and livelihoods! Thank you to everyone who made this encounter possible. P.S. ICAS Book Series. Anchored by ICAS at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the book series has…
Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Conference 2022. Plenary conferences
The Climate Change and Agrarian Justice conference took place from 26 – 29 September 2022. Watch the four plenary conferences. Check the full program Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference
Rethinking the political economy of rural struggles in Turkey: Space, structures, and altered agencies
Check out this open-access article in the Journal of Agrarian Change by Sinem Kavak (Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, & CASAS member). Abstract: By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run-of-the-river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or…