Chukwuma Ume is a lecturer at the University of Nigeria. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nigeria and pursued his Master of Science degree in Environment and Development at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Currently, he is undertaking his PhD at the Center for…
Julio Gutiérrez is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is originally from El Salvador. His research interest focuses on the political ecology of financialization, particularly the relationship between speculative urbanism and resource grabbing in Central America. His dissertation project explores the process of gentrification in Cordillera…
Estevan Coca is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Federal University of Alfenas, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate Geography, and a Research Associate of the Territorial Development in America Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL) Graduate Program at São Paulo State University. Estevan’s research is focused on Critical Agrarian…
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…
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…