Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
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Recent news, resources for early-career scholars and important announcements about the collective and our partners and allies.
Our CASAS’ member, Mariana Reinach, is working on her PhD in Brazil, in the Caramuru Catarina Paraguaçu Indigenous Land, of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous people. The community has launched a Manifiesto demanding justice for the murder of their spiritual leader Nega Pataxó. At the beginning of 2024, a spiritual leader of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe people,…
Class struggle manifests in various forms, including strikes, protests, and the dispute for the institutional politics. It is also expressed through several forms of daily mobilization promoted by unions, social movements, political parties, associations, and collectives. In addition to these forms, class struggle also takes place in the struggle for memory. August 23, 2024, occurred…
Diana Valencia-Duarrte (CASAS member) and Hannah Hughes are going to supervise a project on the environmental history of the Amazon. It’s a participatory project mainly related to the climate change narrative. This project aims to contribute to efforts to world International Relations (IR) and decolonise history by exploring the study and practice of IR through…
New book just released, and prefaced by CASAS members Mercedes Ejarque, Sinem Kavak, and colleagues. ABSTRACT Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and…
In a significant milestone, we convened our first in-person General Assembly last October at the esteemed College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. The assembly was held as a pre-activity to the Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century – International Conference, a collaborative effort by COHD, The…