CASAS’ Collective paper is now published in Spanish in Revista Alter-Nativa. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity…
It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
Guested edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Ben M. McKay and Juan Liu The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the “global land grab”, and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international…
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS), Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), and the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Studies Scholars – CASAS (the…
The 2019 JPS-COHD writeshop was organized on 1-7 July in Beijing. After the writeshop, the attendees formed the Global South Young Critical Agrarian Scholars and drafted “Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A manifesto”.