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Research Fellow opportunity, Summer Seminar with support for global South scholars, and Writing Workshop
We are glad to share three opportunities: a postdoctoral position in Political Ecology/Agrarian Studies at the University of Melbourne; the Summer Seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice” at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) and the South/South Writing Workshop.For more details, visit the links below:https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/seminars-2024https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/914546https://www.southsouthmovement.org/projects/south-south-writing-workshop/
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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…
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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…
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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…