Diana Aguiar, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Portuguese in “Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura”. Abstract: This article analyzes how transformation of the global geography of soy and the subsequent retracing of trade routes for this commodity encounters previously established interests and speculative flows in frontier regions, generating disputes and strategies for local and regional…
Afonso Henrique de M. Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Agrarios. Abstract: The present work aims to discuss and present how Antonio Gramsci’s concept of extended State contributed as a theoretical and methodological tool for studying organizations of businessmen and rural landowners between 1986 and…
CASAS’ member, Gabriel Souza Bastos, has published this article in Portuguese in Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura Abstract: This article analyzes the persistence of a peasant class identity in a rural area of the Baixada Fluminense, manifested through oral history and reproduced by the local population over decades, based on conceptions of spontaneous philosophies and…
Gabriel Souza Bastos, CASAS’ member, has just published this article in Portuguese in Revista Mundos do Trabalho. Abstract in English: The article examines an aborted attempt at armed resistance to the 1964 coup, involving a political coalition comprising peasants’ associations and unions, particularly petroleum workers, in the Baixada Fluminense region. Through documentary, journalistic analysis, and…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has recently published this paper in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene with his colleagues David Meek & Bernardo Mançano Fernandes. Abstract: This article focuses on the contested interconnections between affective labor, agroecological education, and territory in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We understand territory to be both embodied, material and…