South America
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The collective actions of agrarian socio-territorial movements and the relationship between the countryside and the cities in Brazil in 2020: the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform
Estevan Coca, CASAS’ member has recently published this article in Portuguese in Punto Sur journal, with Leonardo Lencioni, Janaina Vinha, João Paulo Lopes, Oscar Triviño and Rangel Nascimento. Abstract: This paper discusses the socioterritorial movements’ collective action in Brazil, during the year 2020. For this, we organize and analyze the dataluta network database. In dialogue…
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Drop by drop, a sea of actions: theoretical-methodological contributions to the study of socio-spatial and socioterritorial movements of water in Brazil
CASAS’ member José Sobreiro Filho has published this article in portuguese with colleagues Nelson Gabriel, Luis Henrique Marques Rosa Buani, Miriam Moura, Ronaldo Barros Sodré, Wuelliton Felipe Peres Lima, Isabelle Avon Carolino Vanderlei & Márcia Renata Carvalho Santos in Punto Sur journal. Abstract: Territorial disputes over natural resources have marked the history of Latin America.…
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From Conflict to Reparation: Challenges and Meanings of the First Collective Amnesty for Peasants in Brazil
This article by Gabriel Souza Bastos[i], CASAS’ member, has originally been published in Portuguese in Boletim Memória No. 2, May 2025, a monthly outreach publication of the Research, Documentation, and Reference Center on Social Movements and Public Policies in Rural Areas (NMSPP), part of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture, and Society…
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Frogs, coalitions, and mining: Transformative insights for planetary health and earth system law from Ecuador’s struggle to enforce Nature’s rights
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Earth System Governance with her colleagues Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío, Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano, Andrea Terán-Valdez, Gustavo Redin-Guerrero, Carlos Varela, & Stephen Posner Abstract: Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and…