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/
Palestine: Reaffirming our commitment for a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars
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…
Cross-class alliances and urban middle classes with peasant characteristics: a historical-spatial approach to agency in territory-based rural mobilisations in Turkey
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…
Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Cropsand Agrarian Reform
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…
Socioenvironmental Injustice across the Global Divide: Slow Violence and Institutional Betrayal in Bhopal and Flint
New publication by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) and Louise Seamster has a new article in Sociology of Development titled ‘Socioenvironmental Injustice across the Global Divide: Slow Violence and Institutional Betrayal in Bhopal and Flint’. Abstract: This paper explores the connections between two seemingly disparate cases of socioenvironmental injustice: Flint’s water crisis in Michigan, USA, and…