Written by more than 30 members of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South, we want to share this piece published as part of the JPS 50th Anniversary Issue! This is an expanded version of CASAS original manifesto created in 2019 after the first JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism,…
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…
María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that…
Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti is an Argentine food sociologist specialising in political ecology and economic sociology with an emphasis on Latin American studies, concerned about the future of food systems and gender equality in transitions to sustainability. Since 2008, she has obtained numerous scholarships, grants and awards to study and conduct research in Argentina, Brazil,…
George T. Mudimu holds a Ph.D. in Public Management (Rural Development and Management) from China Agricultural University in Beijing, a Master’s in Public Administration from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and an Honours in Public Administration from the University of Zimbabwe. George’s current research is on counter-agrarian reform, capitalism, food systems, and rural politics. He is a…