Brazil
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Agroecological education on contested ground: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement and the politics of knowledge
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…
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The forgotten repression: peasants and the dictatorship in a rural area of the Baixada fluminense
Gabriel Souza Bastos, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Ruris. Abstract: In this article, I analyze the memorialistic dynamics of repressive events carried out after the coup of 1964, whose target was peasant populations in a locality known as Pedra Lisa, currently in the municipality of Japeri, where land struggles…
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Manifesto: Justice for Nega Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe – Indigenous emergency!
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,…
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“The History of the Society of Small Farmers and Squatters of Pedra Lisa”(Brazil)
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…