South America
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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“The History of the Society of Small Farmers and Squatters of Pedra Lisa”(Brazil)
Gabriel Bastos, a member of CASAS, was recently featured as a guest in a newly released documentary. The short film, “The History of the Society of Small Farmers and Squatters of Pedra Lisa”, produced by the Federation of Urban and Rural Residents’ Associations of Japeri (FAMEJA), chronicles the story of one of the first rural…