Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
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timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
Afonso Henrique Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has reviewed this book in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The book is a case study about Evo Morales’ government in Bolivia, which is the first indigenous government in the history of this country. It is based on an etnographic research conducted between 2016 and 2019. Read the full review…
Qinhong Xu, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies with Rutgerd Boelens & Gert Jan Veldwisch Abstract: The article investigates the evolution of rural water governance in the People’s Republic of China through a historical review of its water governance transformations, including the ideology, institutions, and discourses. It is…
Ruth-Castel Branco is a Senior Lecturer at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand and coordinates the Future of Work(ers) Research Group. Her research interests include structural transformation and agrarian change, the implications for the labour market and conditions of work, worker struggle and the redistributive role of the state. She holds…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has recently published this paper in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene with his colleagues David Meek & Bernardo Mançano Fernandes. Abstract: This article focuses on the contested interconnections between affective labor, agroecological education, and territory in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We understand territory to be both embodied, material and…
Our CASAS’ member, Mariana Reinach, is working on her PhD in Brazil, in the Caramuru Catarina Paraguaçu Indigenous Land, of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous people. The community has launched a Manifiesto demanding justice for the murder of their spiritual leader Nega Pataxó. At the beginning of 2024, a spiritual leader of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe people,…