Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has organised this book with Adriano Santos. Abstract: The south and south-west of Minas Gerais is known worldwide for its arabica coffee production, but the region’s agriculture goes far beyond that. Here, land disputes, struggles against agribusiness, agroecological experiments, fairs, academic events and social movements that challenge the capitalist model of…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese with Maria Laura Carvalho & Adriano Santos in Boletim DataLuta. Abstract: In the region of South and Southeast Minas Gerais, building agroecology evolves the protagonism of popular representations. “Bottom-up” initiatives produce political spaces for organization and social mobilization. The region is marked by the historical…
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…