Call for Applications
The third JPS Annual Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism for PhD students and young researchers is looking for approximately 30-40 participants.
This third JPS Annual Writeshop-Workshop is for PhD students and young researchers (up to 5 years from PhD completion) who are based in, or are originally from, the Global South. Due to the global pandemic, the third Writeshop, like the second Writeshop (2020), will be held online and spread across several months between late August and December 2021.
As part of a collective peer review process, successful applicants will be asked to circulate in advance a draft manuscript (based on their accepted abstract) of 8,000-10,000 words among participants of the Writeshop-Workshop.
How to apply
Applicants must submit the following in one Word file:
1. An abstract of 500 words, related to critical agrarian studies
2. A short bio of 250 words
3. Names and contact information of 2 academic references
Please send your application to: jpeasantstudieswriteshop@gmail.com
Deadline: 30 April 2021
Application results to be announced on 10 May 2021.
Those selected are invited to submit a full draft manuscript of 8,000–10,000 words. This is due on 31 July 2021.
About the workshop
The Writeshop aims to improve young researchers’ strategic knowledge and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact (including choosing journals; building ideas about and framing/writing journal manuscripts, and overall preparation and submission of journal manuscripts; dealing with peer review reports, and so on). The Writeshop-Workshop will include peer review discussions on participants’ draft journal manuscripts. It will alsohave sessions on key debates and literature in critical agrarian studies, and concepts and practices of scholar-activism. The online Writeshop will be organized in 5 waves between late August and December 2021. Each wave will be 3-4 days, and each day will be a 3-hour online session. After the Writeshop, participants will be in a better position to frame their work in relation to critical agrarian studies and to think about international journal publications in the long-term, and finalize journal manuscripts in the short term. They will also benefit from being part of an emerging community of young researchers working in critical agrarian studies from a scholar-activist tradition. Several participants would be invited to submit manuscripts to JPS, and encouraged to submit to other major international journals.
For information about the 2019 Writeshop in Beijing, see: https://casasouth.org/sample-page/ For information about the 2020 Writeshop online, see: https://www.plaas.org.za/sarchi-chair/jps-writeshop/
The Writeshop is organized by:
· Journal of Peasant Studies
· CASAS – Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists in the South (the emerging association of graduates of this annual writeshop)
· PLAAS — Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape
· YARA — Young African Researchers in Agriculture
· COHD — College of Humanities and Development Studies of China Agricultural University, Beijing
· FAC — Future Agricultures Consortium
· ICAS — Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies
For queries, please contact any of the organizers, or send email to the Writeshop email address: jpeasantstudieswriteshop@gmail.com*****
Juan Liu
Dr Juan Liu is an associate professor of political ecology and agrarian studies at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU) and a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research interests include energy transitions, migration and the left-behind population, land politics, and political economy/ecology of agriculture, food and environment, etc.