Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
Afonso Henrique Fernandes holds a Ph.D. in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is dedicated to teaching and research in Contemporary Social History of Latin America, as well as its political and cultural sociology. In this field he has been developing research focused especially on the role of organizations and associations of landowners and agro-industrial…
Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo is a researcher affiliated with the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. He holds a PhD in African Studies from the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Development Studies from the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe), and a BA in History and Development Studies from…
Patricia Retamal holds a Ph.D. in Territory, Space and Society from the University of Chile and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Economics and Social Policy at the Universidad Mayor. Her work focuses on understanding women’s employment and care arrangements in rural agro-industrial contexts.
Ruth-Castel Branco is a Senior Lecturer at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand and coordinates the Future of Work(ers) Research Group. Her research interests include structural transformation and agrarian change, the implications for the labour market and conditions of work, worker struggle and the redistributive role of the state. She holds…