Where Are We Now? The State of Agrarian Reform and Rural-Agrarian Struggles in the Philippines from the Perspective of a Contemporary Agrarian Movement

Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya (CASAS’ member) has published this UP CIDS discussion paper with Sheila Mae Pagurayan. Abstract; Thirty-eight years after the signing of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), the quest to democratize land politics in the Philippine countryside remains fraught with persistent and developing challenges. This paper draws on participatory action research with…

June 24, 2024

Guerrillas or Peasants? Interpretation of the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in the Colombian Public Sphere

Juan Camilo Portela, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Spanish in “Debates en Sociología”. Abstract: This article addresses the processes of interpretation in the public sphere about the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in Colombia, and especially the way in which the protesters were considered authentic and legitimate. Based on a cultural sociology approach,…

January 11, 2021

Agrarian Conversations – webinar series in critical agrarian studies & scholar-activism –

Episode 1: What can we learn from the world of pastoralism for wider agrarian struggles? Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM UTC+01 A collective initiative of CASAS, TNI, PLAAS, ICAS, YARA, ERPI, PASTRES, RRUSHES-5 and Journal of Peasant Studies, the Agrarian Conversations series aims to address strategic and urgent issues in and in relation to the rural world today. The format…