It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
Free Access Articles from J. of Peasant Studies 2021
The list includes papers by CASAS members who participated in past JPS writeshops! From the Journal of Peasant Studies: The Web of Science Journal Citation Reports 2021 was released on 30 June 2021. The 2-year Impact Factor of Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) is 6.4 (and its 5-year Impact Factor is 7.2.), ranking JPS 1/88 in Anthropology and 3/41 in…
Oil Palm Workers Confront a Fatal Blow Against Unions in Colombia
On November 1st, 2019, Indupalma, one of the pioneer companies in the Colombian palm oil industry, announced its voluntary dissolution. This company is not bankrupt and owns 10,000 hectares of productive oil palm crops. Why does a productive and financially-viable company decide to enter a voluntary dissolution process? In Colombia, palm oil corporations have implemented,…
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…
JPS Forum on India’s Agrarian Question: Class, Caste and Agrarian Change
Jens Lerche (SOAS, London), Surinder Jodhka (JNU), and Satendra Kumar (Inst. of Advanced Studies, Shimla), in conversation with Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University). The Forum is organised by the Journal of Peasant Studies in partnership with the Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, and the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.