The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South is a network emerging from the 2019 Journal of Peasant Studies Writeshop on Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism in Beijing, China. It expanded through its following three annual editions till 2022. Self-organized by former Writeshop participants, CASAS aims to promote scholarship and activism in critical agrarian studies…
Check out this JPS article by Carol Hernández (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). How do subsistence communities conceptualize their seed sovereignty? What do peasants perceive to be the principal threats to their seed sovereignty and how do they respond to these threats?; and How do local seed sovereignty initiatives relate to the…
Check out this Geoforum article by Carol Hernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). Abstract Violent conflicts are frequently associated with detrimental or neutral effects on economic, social, and environmental development; by extension, one might expect similar effects on agrobiodiversity. However, as this study suggests, the impacts of conflicts are not necessarily all…
My name is Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach, I’m a brazilian social scientist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a PhD student in the Graduate Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society, at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ), where I also got my masters degree. I am a researcher at the Center of Power Studies…
Written by more than 30 members of the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists of the Global South, we want to share this piece published as part of the JPS 50th Anniversary Issue! This is an expanded version of CASAS original manifesto created in 2019 after the first JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism,…