Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
Recent news, resources for early-career scholars and important announcements about the collective and our partners and allies.
CASAS supports the personal appeal from the Journal of Peasant Studies’ editors to help with fundraising efforts for Filipino artivist Boy Dominguez, whose art has also been featured on our website (picture above). Boy Dominguez (BoyD) has been creating the cover art for JPS since the special issue on biofuels in 2009. Since then, his…
Within the framework of ICARRD+20, the academics and scholar-activists that participated in the Land, Life and Society Academic Coference developed the Cartagena Declaration.CASAS’ members participated in the writing of the Cartagena Declaration with representatives of other universities, research institutions and organizations from across the world.The declaration is a call for systemic transformation around land rights…
I left Augsburg on the 20th of February, with the Bavarian winter clinging on a stubborn grey sky pressing down on the red roofs. Leaving Germany in winter always feels like leaving a world held in stasis: a world of order, schedules, and heavy, quiet introspection. It’s a world where, politically, the air feels thick…
The Journal of Peasant Studies and co-organizers are pleased to announce the International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism 2026. 1-10 July 2026, China Agricultural University, Beijing/Hebei Call for Applications The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Beijing Innovation Center for Rural Revitalization and Integrated Rural-urban Development (BIC-RRID), Collective of…
Our mentor, Jun Borras (former JPS Chief Editor and Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies) has written about the global-local connections in international knowledge politics, considering the initiative of the international Writeshops for early career scholars from the Global South in which CASAS’ is one of the organizers. Read his…