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Sinem Kavak

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Transforming critical agrarian studies: : Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South

Author

  • Diana Aguiar
  • Yasmin Ahmed
  • Duygu Avci
  • Gabriel Bastos
  • Bosman Batubara
  • Cynthia Bejeno
  • Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides
  • Komal Chauhan
  • Sergio Coronado
  • Somashree Das
  • Mercedes Ejarque
  • Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy
  • Diana Isabel Güiza-Gomez
  • Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong
  • Hao Phuong Phan
  • Rahma Hassan Masters
  • Carol Hernandez Rodriguez
  • Huiying Ng
  • Sardar Babur Hussain
  • Sinem Kavak
  • Thiruni Kelegama
  • Amit John Kurien
  • Darren Shi-chi Leung
  • Tania Martínez-Cruz
  • Boaventura Monjane
  • George Tonderai Mudimu
  • Deniz Pelek
  • Tsilavo Ralandison
  • Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti
  • Dzifa Torvikey
  • Diana María Valencia-Duarte
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Summary, in English

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced bycritical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We arguethat despite the historical and structural limitations, the criticaljuncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest inagrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering adiverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectivesabout, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent inmainstream scholarship dominated by the Global North. We alsopropose doing so by enhancing solidarity to transform injusticeswithin academia and other spaces of knowledge production anddissemination. To develop the argument,first, we reflect on themultiplicity of crises in rural areas and the changing character ofsocial struggles, as well as the interlinkages betweenenvironmental crises and the re-emergence of critical agrarianstudies that are reshaping the agrarian question. Then, we discussthe implications and conditions of the political agenda carriedout by a scholar-activist movement working on agrarian studiesfrom the Global South. Drawing on our experience as theCollective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS),we conclude by proposing three ways forward for enhancingsolidarity through networks of scholar-activists: knowledgeaccessibility, cooperative organization, and co-production ofknowledge

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

758-786

Publication/Series

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volume

50

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article (comment)

Publisher

Frank Cass Publishers

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • scholar-activism
  • Global South
  • knowledge politics
  • academic inequalities
  • critical agrarian studies

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0306-6150