Social Movements
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Who is Who in CASAS: Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti
Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti is a PhD student in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Their focus study is resistance studies, social movement, and community development. In Indonesia, she serves as a lecturer in the Department of Social Development and Welfare at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
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Travelling with the Sun: A Landmark Journey from Bavaria to Bolívar
I left Augsburg on the 20th of February, with the Bavarian winter clinging on a stubborn grey sky pressing down on the red roofs. Leaving Germany in winter always feels like leaving a world held in stasis: a world of order, schedules, and heavy, quiet introspection. It’s a world where, politically, the air feels thick…
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Pesticides and food sovereignty: (dis)connections and challenges for agrarian movements
Soledad Castro-Vargas, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Grettel Navas, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Yunan Xu & Daniela Ayelén Marini, CASAS’ members have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pesticide use, with significant growth over the past three…
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Burkina Faso and the New Sahelian Era/ Burkina Faso e a Nova Era Saheliana
By Boaventura Monjane (CASAS’ member), associate researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape and co-founding member and Executive Director of Alternactiva (Acção Pela Emancipação Social). boa.monjane@gmail.com ** English version- Portuguese below** Between January and February of this year, I visited West Africa, dividing my time between…