Check out this JPS article by Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (Sabanci University & CASAS member). Abstract: This article focuses on the particular intersection of crises and change in gender- and generation-based social reproduction with agrarian change in the form of a large-scale land grab/investment from a feminist perspective. Based on a case study, it interrogates…
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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…
Seed sovereignty as decommodification: a perspective from subsistence peasant communities in Southern Mexico
Check out this JPS article by Carol Hernández (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). How do subsistence communities conceptualize their seed sovereignty? What do peasants perceive to be the principal threats to their seed sovereignty and how do they respond to these threats?; and How do local seed sovereignty initiatives relate to the…
“Without Food there is No Resistance”: The impact of the Zapatista conflict on agrobiodiversity and seed sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico
Check out this Geoforum article by Carol Hernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). Abstract Violent conflicts are frequently associated with detrimental or neutral effects on economic, social, and environmental development; by extension, one might expect similar effects on agrobiodiversity. However, as this study suggests, the impacts of conflicts are not necessarily all…
Transforming Critical Agrarian Studies: Solidarity, Scholar-Activism and Emancipatory Agendas in and from the Global South. Free Access!
Written by more than 30 members of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South, we want to share this piece published as part of the JPS 50th Anniversary Issue! This is an expanded version of CASAS original manifesto created in 2019 after the first JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism,…