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.
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…
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,…
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…
Class struggle manifests in various forms, including strikes, protests, and the dispute for the institutional politics. It is also expressed through several forms of daily mobilization promoted by unions, social movements, political parties, associations, and collectives. In addition to these forms, class struggle also takes place in the struggle for memory. August 23, 2024, occurred…