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Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge (deadline: 20 June 2023)
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is starting a new programme of funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South. The purpose of these Fellowships is to provide opportunities for scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to exchange ideas…
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International Conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century. 10-12 October, 2023, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China (deadline: 5, May, 2023)
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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Land grabbing ten years on: a Call for Applications for small research grants (deadline: 31 May, 2023)
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 displacement…
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La Via Campesina at 30: a special grassroots voices collection
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, we have put together a special “grassroots voices” collection, comprising interviews with key leaders of the movement: Morgan Ody, Francisca ‘Pancha’ Rodríguez, Geum Soon Yoon, Ibrahima Coulibaly, and Paul Nicholson, as well as reflection pieces by Nettie Wiebe, Rita Calvário and Annette…