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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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Pandemics and the specter of hunger in Brazil: a multidimensional crisis and a negationist president
The COVID-19 pandemic arrives in Brazil at a time of political and economic crisis, deepened by the fact that the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is one of the few remaining world negationist leaders – frequently minimizing the gravity of the pandemic and urging for the end of social isolation measures so that economic activity may…