News
-
Palestine: Reaffirming our commitment for a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars
Check out the English, Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese versions of our collective statement below: We, the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS), are writing this statement to express our solidarity with the People of Palestine who are currently the victims of a genocidal attack and other war crimes from Israel in Gaza…
-
LDPI Call for Papers, land grabs conference, March 2024, Bogota
What is LDPI? More than a decade ago, the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) was launched as a loose network of scholars and activists concerned about the rise of land, water and green grabs across the world and the consequences for rural livelihoods and agrarian relations. A massive wave of investment in land, resulting in expropriation and…
-
Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles by Borras & Franco
The latest volume in the ICAS small book series has just been released today: Borras and Franco (2023) Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles. It’s in paperback but also in Open Access ebook edition.This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best…
-
CASAS 4th Anniversary
The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South is a network emerging from the 2019 Journal of Peasant Studies Writeshop on Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism in Beijing, China. It expanded through its following three annual editions till 2022. Self-organized by former Writeshop participants, CASAS aims to promote scholarship and activism in critical agrarian studies…