Brazil
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Soy’s “War of Routes”: from speculation to “logistics rationale”
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…
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Gramsci’s relevance in the study of entrepreneurs and rural landowners’ representative organizations during Brazilian redemocratization (1986-1991)
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…
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Oral History, Collective Memories, and Class Identity in Agrarian Struggles in Baixada Fluminense
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…
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Peasants, workers, and the attempted armed resistance to the 1964 coup in the Baixada Fluminense
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…