Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
Our CASAS’ member, Mariana Reinach, is working on her PhD in Brazil, in the Caramuru Catarina Paraguaçu Indigenous Land, of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous people. The community has launched a Manifiesto demanding justice for the murder of their spiritual leader Nega Pataxó. At the beginning of 2024, a spiritual leader of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe people,…
Gabriel Bastos, a member of CASAS, was recently featured as a guest in a newly released documentary. The short film, “The History of the Society of Small Farmers and Squatters of Pedra Lisa”, produced by the Federation of Urban and Rural Residents’ Associations of Japeri (FAMEJA), chronicles the story of one of the first rural…
Class struggle manifests in various forms, including strikes, protests, and the dispute for the institutional politics. It is also expressed through several forms of daily mobilization promoted by unions, social movements, political parties, associations, and collectives. In addition to these forms, class struggle also takes place in the struggle for memory. August 23, 2024, occurred…
Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in portuguese in “Debates en Sociología”, a peruvian journal. Abstract: We analyzed the impacts of the regime change in post-2016 Brazil on patterns of activism, based on the case of the oldest confederation of rural workers in the country. Since the end of the…
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, have published with a colleague a paper in Portuguese in Boletim de Geografia. Abstract: As a contradictory and limited response to the various environmental and social liabilities that agribusiness- the current face of agrarian capitalism– has generated in recent decades, we are currently witnessing the emergence of organic production experiences by…