I’m Mercedes Ejarque, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina and a Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I’m a sociologist and hold a Master’s Degree in Social Research and a PhD in Social Sciences. I participated in the 2020 JPS Writeshop and became a CASAS…
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Who is who in CASAS? Boaventura Monjane
Boaventura Monjane (from Mozambique) holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Sociology), from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the RLS….
Who is who in CASAS? Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui is from Ecuador and works twofold as an academic and practitioner. She holds a M.A. and a M.S., and is a Ph.D. Student in the Food Systems Program at the University of Vermont (UVM), USA. For her dissertation, Amaya is studying collective action in the context of agroecological transition. She has worked with…
Who is who in CASAS? Rahma Hassan
I’m a social-economic researcher from Kenya, currently a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen within the Rights and Resilience in Kenya Project, a collaboration between Danish and Kenyan researchers. My research interests include land reforms, pastoralist resilience, governance, and the inclusion of minorities and marginalized people. My Ph.D. research…
Who is who in CASAS? Isabel Güiza-Gómez
My name is Isabel Güiza-Gómez and I’m a PhD candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (U.S.), a doctoral affiliate to the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab hosted at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and a research associate to Dejusticia (Colombia). My research agenda includes rural-poor…