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Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: critical agrarian studies today by Jun Borras
As you know, 31 January 2023 is Jun’s last day as Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies after 15 years working for the journal. This year is also the 50th anniversary of JPS! We want to share with you Jun’s reflection paper recently released on how JPS and Critical Agrarian Studies have shaped each…
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UN OHCHR Call for input: Violence and the right to food. Deadline: Nov. 21, 2022
Purpose To inform the Human Rights Council report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, focusing on the nature, degree, and cause of violence present in food systems. Key questions and types of input/comments sought For more information: https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-input-violence-and-right-food
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Postdoc Opportunity at PLAAS 2023-24
Dear colleagues, Professor Ruth Hall, at PLAAS (University of the Western Cape), is looking for an African woman postdoc candidate for 2023 and 2024. It’s Rands 200k a year. Focus flexibly across the four thematic SARChI workstreams and activities to be negotiated. Here are the workstreams: https://www.plaas.org.za/sarchi-chair/ If you are interested, please get in touch with Ruth…
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JPS climate change articles free access
Some of the papers presented and discussed during the Climate Change & Agrarian Justice online conference have already been published in JPS, as part of the JPS Special Forum on Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. In order to help expand and deepen the conversation, we are offering 14 of these articles free access from…