scholar activism
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Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ecological thinking
CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
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CASAS Research Talks: Episode 3
Episode 3 of the CASAS Research Talks focuses on the process of film making as a scholar activist activity. It is Part II of the conversation with Mnqobi Ngubane, CASAS member and the producer of the documentary Mathonga Elizwe – Spirits of the Land which captures one of the most critical and complex issues in contemporary South Africa—land…
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Reframing the agrarian question(s): pluralism, politics and the promise of critical agrarian studies
CASAS’ members Mary Ann Manahan, Amod Shah, Sinem Kavak, Bhoopendra Kumar Ahirwar, George T. Mudimu, Huiying Ng & Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey have published this book review in The Journal of Peasant Studies. It is a rewiew of the Handbook of critical agrarian studies, edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M.…
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Meet the JPS Writeshop 2021 participants!
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,…