News
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Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies – Open access book
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…
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First in-person CASAS General Assembly: Highlights and Contacts
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…
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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…