To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are convening an international gathering in October in Beijing, China to critically analyze ecological…
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El problema del “expertise” y la necesidad de crear dialogos interculturales en desarrollo internacional
This opinion article was written for LASA Forum in Spanish, a version in English will come soon “the problem with expertise and the need to create intercultural in international development”. This reflection is based on the author’s experiences for more than 10 years working for different international development organisations on Indigenous issues. Click below to…
Call for Applications – 4th Annual Writeshop
Are you an early-career scholar from the Global South? Do you work on issues linked to Critical AgrarianStudies? Would you like to get support and feedback to improve your publishing skills? Don’t think it twice and join our 4th Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism that will take place on December 5-10, 2022,…
Carol Hernandez’s new article in Geoforum on Seed Sovereignty and Conflict in Chiapas
Carol Hernandez, CASAS member, has just published “Without Food there is No Resistance: The Impact of the Zapatista Conflict on Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico” with coauthors Hugo Perales and Daniel Jaffee. This paper is part of a special issue titled Agrobiodiversity Change in Violent Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes, coordinated by Gabriel Tamariz and Megan…
Meet the JPS Writeshop 2021 participants!
It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…