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Fundraiser for artivist Boy Dominguez
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…
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Cartagena Declaration
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…
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Travelling with the Sun: A Landmark Journey from Bavaria to Bolívar
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…
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Call for applicants: Writeshop 2026
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…