South America
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Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers
“Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers” is the new article of CASAS’ member Grettel Navas & colleagues in the journal Social Science & Medicine. The article examine how 20 Chilean farmworkers in the Maule Region construct and organise their understanding of occupational pesticide exposure. Pesticides…
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Cane Does Not Make Soup
Cane Does Not Make Soup is a film by Lorena Arias Solano (CASAS’ member), as a is part of her doctoral research project “Violent Landscapes, Sugar Plantations in Southwest Colombia”, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden. Cane Does Not Make Soup tells the story of Afro-descendant communities living surrounded by sugarcane plantations in the…
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Defending Argentina’s Territorial Sovereignty: An International Call Against the Deregulation of Foreign Land Ownership
Today, August 6, the Argentine Congress will debate a bill aimed at flexibilizing and eventually eliminating National Law 26,737, enacted in 2011, which restricts foreign ownership of land. From the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS), we express our strong rejection of this initiative and deep concern about its territorial, social, political, and…
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
New Publication Alert! CASAS member Estevan Coca has just published this article with Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large-scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land…