I’m a Ph.D. student in Geography at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil, and hold a master’s in Geography from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. I’m a member of the BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS) research group and the Observatory for Socio-environmental Conflicts in Matopiba, Brazil. I’m also the Director treasurer…
Category: CASAS Members
Who is who in CASAS? Angela Serrano
Angela Serrano is a Colombian sociologist doing research at the intersection of global value chains, labor movements and political ecology. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Universidad de los Andes where she teaches courses on agrofood systems, Latin American studies, politically-engaged research, and research methods. Angela studies how different global industries shape life…
Who is who in CASAS? Mercedes Ejarque
I’m Mercedes Ejarque, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina and a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I’m a sociologist and hold a Master’s Degree in Social Research and a PhD in Social Sciences. I participated in the 2020 JPS Writeshop and became a CASAS…
Who is who in CASAS? Boaventura Monjane
Boaventura Monjane (from Mozambique) holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the RLS….
Who is who in CASAS? Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui is from Ecuador and works twofold as an academic and practitioner. She holds a M.A. and a M.S., and is a Ph.D. Student in the Food Systems Program at the University of Vermont (UVM), USA. For her dissertation, Amaya is studying collective action in the context of agroecological transition. She has worked with…