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 with the literature on critical agrarian studies and the spatial diversity in geographic studies, we demonstrate how the actions implemented by agrarian socio-territorial movements in cities express the current agrarian question. Urban and rural are part of a dialectical reality, and to understand them it is necessary to go beyond polarized explanations that hide the conflicts between social classes. Those actions are the result of demands that articulate urban and rural spaces such as healthy food, environmental sustainability, and labor dignity. This fact reinforces the understanding that considering these new rural and urban meanings is paramount to suppressing capitalism’s structural limits.

Read the full article in Portuguese: https://doi.org/10.34096/ps.n12.14562

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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.