I was part of the 2020 JPS writeshop (a fantastic experience!) and have collaborated with CASAS since then. I hold a PhD in Sociology from Portland State University and was a professor at the Department of Sociology from 2016 to 2019. Since 2021, I have been an associate researcher at the University Program of Bioethics…
Carlos Bolomey Córdova is a rural sociologist based in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University, UK. His interests lie at the intersection of family farming, agrarian change, agri-food systems, and ethnography. He has extensive experience conducting ethnographic and collaborative work within indigenous territories in Southern Chile. During his PhD, he researched farmers’ and…
Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah is a Ph.D. candidate at the University for Development Studies, Ghana and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Leon holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and an MPhil in History from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Higher School of Economics, Russia, respectively. He possesses over…
Andrew Bennie is a Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive background in civil society research, organising and activism, related to land, agrarian struggles, climate justice, and food justice. He previously worked as a researcher, organiser and popular educator with township and…
Gabriel Bastos, from Brazil, holds Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture, and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Currently, he serves as a researcher at Germinal, an interdisciplinary research association that facilitates a dialogical exchange between popular and scientific knowledge, fostering an emancipatory process within popular groups and social movements. …