Afonso Henrique Fernandes holds a Ph.D. in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He is dedicated to teaching and research in Contemporary Social History of Latin America, as well as its political and cultural sociology. In this field he has been developing research focused especially on the role of organizations and associations of landowners and agro-industrial…
Tag: South America
Book review: Now we are in power: The politics of passive revolution in twenty-first-century Bolivia by Angus McNelly.
Afonso Henrique Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has reviewed this book in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The book is a case study about Evo Morales’ government in Bolivia, which is the first indigenous government in the history of this country. It is based on an etnographic research conducted between 2016 and 2019. Read the full review…
Who is who in CASAS? Patricia Retamal
Patricia Retamal holds a Ph.D. in Territory, Space and Society from the University of Chile and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Economics and Social Policy at the Universidad Mayor. Her work focuses on understanding women’s employment and care arrangements in rural agro-industrial contexts.
Peasants, workers, and the attempted armed resistance to the 1964 coup in the Baixada Fluminense
Gabriel Souza Bastos, CASAS’ member, has just published this article in Portuguese in Revista Mundos do Trabalho. Abstract in English: The article examines an aborted attempt at armed resistance to the 1964 coup, involving a political coalition comprising peasants’ associations and unions, particularly petroleum workers, in the Baixada Fluminense region. Through documentary, journalistic analysis, and…
Manifesto: Justice for Nega Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe – Indigenous emergency!
Our CASAS’ member, Mariana Reinach, is working on her PhD in Brazil, in the Caramuru Catarina Paraguaçu Indigenous Land, of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous people. The community has launched a Manifiesto demanding justice for the murder of their spiritual leader Nega Pataxó. At the beginning of 2024, a spiritual leader of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe people,…