Natalia Landivar, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes the barriers that peasant associations faced to access seized land in Hacienda Las Mercedes through the Plan Tierras. I argue that the mobilization for land transited between an undemocratic state that has historically served the agrarian…
Tag: South America
Rural Unions and Brazil’s Turn to the Right: Public and Semi-public Action
Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in portuguese in “Debates en Sociología”, a peruvian journal. Abstract: We analyzed the impacts of the regime change in post-2016 Brazil on patterns of activism, based on the case of the oldest confederation of rural workers in the country. Since the end of the…
Guerrillas or Peasants? Interpretation of the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in the Colombian Public Sphere
Juan Camilo Portela, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Spanish in “Debates en Sociología”. Abstract: This article addresses the processes of interpretation in the public sphere about the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in Colombia, and especially the way in which the protesters were considered authentic and legitimate. Based on a cultural sociology approach,…
When agribusiness is interested in organic production: the contradictions of the sugar cane sector in the South of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member, have published with a colleague a paper in Portuguese in Boletim de Geografia. Abstract: As a contradictory and limited response to the various environmental and social liabilities that agribusiness- the current face of agrarian capitalism– has generated in recent decades, we are currently witnessing the emergence of organic production experiences by…