Check out this critical new publication on “The Politics of Green Colonialism” co-edited by CASAS member Mary Ann Manahan: The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green…
We are glad to share three opportunities: a postdoctoral position in Political Ecology/Agrarian Studies at the University of Melbourne; the Summer Seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice” at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) and the South/South Writing Workshop.For more details, visit the links below:https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/seminars-2024https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/914546https://www.southsouthmovement.org/projects/south-south-writing-workshop/
Check out the English, Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese versions of our collective statement below: We, the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS), are writing this statement to express our solidarity with the People of Palestine who are currently the victims of a genocidal attack and other war crimes from Israel in Gaza…
New publication alert! In her article in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Sinem Kavak (CASAS member) provides insightful analyses of cross-class alliances in Turkey. Abstract: This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it combines agrarian political economy…
New publication alert! Estevan Coca, (CASAS member), Gabriel Soyer, and Ricardo Barbosa Jr have a new article in IDS Bulletin titled ‘Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Cropsand Agrarian Reform’. Abstract: Matopiba’s agricultural frontier has been at the center of political and scientific debates since its establishment in 2015. However, the impact of agribusiness expansion…