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At the JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies:
How to build momentum in our field of critical agrarian studies? Martha Peediyakkan (India) says this process overcomes the isolation of agrarian scholars in general academic departments. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal
How to build momentum in our field of critical agrarian studies? Martha Peediyakkan (India) says this process overcomes the isolation of agrarian scholars in general academic departments. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal
We are wrapping up the writeshop - originally designed as a one-week process to take place in Beijing, we converted it into 5 weeks online, spread over 4 months. Worked brilliantly! 62 PhD candidates from about 40 countries. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc
Schluwa Sama (Kurdistan/Iraq) says the #JPSwriteshop helps to confirm that there is space to combine academic scholarship with activism - and demystifies the world of publishing. @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc
Today our #JPSWriteshop hosts editors of 3 leading journals. First up, @parisyeros introduces the @Agrarian_South as a network as well as journal, with Sam Moyo, launched in 2012, and joint research on reclaiming the land & nation in Africa, Asia & Latin America. @Peasant_Journal
@Agrarian_South builds on the internationalist solidarity built during liberation struggles, the Bandung movement, is inter-disciplinary & grounded in political economy. Publishes in English but accepts in French, Spanish & Portuguese & translates. #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal
@parisyeros outlines priority themes on re-peasantisation, agrarian questions of north & south, indigeneity, gender, race, caste that feature in @Agrarian_South - themes which also feature in themes of the @AIAS_trust summer school -> special issues -> books.
Webinar: Land activism in South Africa: the state of urban and rural struggles
Follow on #LandActivism and comment and ask questions as our speakers Mercia Andrews of @Land4Food & Inyanda Land Movement, @Thembachauk of Landless People's Movement & @LandNnes and @AyandaKota of Unemployed People's Movement. @CovidCoalition @RuralDemocracy @PLAASuwc @ReclaimCT
Land struggles are partly divided by tenure systems inherited from the past - eg. titled commercial farmland, public land, customary land. But joint visions and strategies are feasible. What way forward? #LandActivism
"A good academic is prim, respectful and clinical.
A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."
How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?
Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event!
A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."
How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?
Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event!
"Scholar activists should stop regarding themselves as martyrs. We are activists because of the joy political work gives us, because even when we fail, working to make society kinder, fairer, more just, gives a satisfaction like no other...." 1/2 #JPSWriteshop
2/2 ....because the comrades we find in the effort are friends like no other, and also because our activist efforts illuminate our social & political world in ways that scholarship alone never can." - Frances Fox Piven onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #JPSWriteshop
@DzodziTsikata feminist, academic and professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana is about the start the second presentation on #GenderStudies and #CriticalAgrarianStudies #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal
#CriticalAgrarianStudies has a lot in common with #GenderStudies:
- CAS: constructing alternatives while criticizing biases in dominant paradigms in social science
- GS: interrogating androcentric biases in both mainstream and heterodox social sciences
- CAS: constructing alternatives while criticizing biases in dominant paradigms in social science
- GS: interrogating androcentric biases in both mainstream and heterodox social sciences
Feminist Political Economy brings together many of the overlapped concerns of both theoretical fields:
Key insights from FPE: do the traditional categories of Agrarian Studies: peasants, class, villages, communities, movements, reproduction represent women as well as men?
Key insights from FPE: do the traditional categories of Agrarian Studies: peasants, class, villages, communities, movements, reproduction represent women as well as men?
Today! Last session on Theories & Concepts of #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal with presentations on #PoliticalEcology #Gender and #CriticalAgrarianStudies from Amita Baviskar and @DzodziTsikata
Keep tuned on this exciting discussion with 75+ scholar-activists from 50+ countries
Keep tuned on this exciting discussion with 75+ scholar-activists from 50+ countries
Amita Baviskar from .@IEGResearch will guide us through the ways in which Political Ecology speaks and challenge Agrarian Studies and what this brings to this conversation, regardless of the disciplinary fields!
The story begins in India, with the struggles of people against the construction of a dam in the Narmada Valley. Access and control on the means of production (rich farmers, indigenous people, extractivist state) shaped the conflict
#JPSwriteshop .@Peasant_Journal
Moral Economy: it addresses the questions of how peasants react to the break of trust or in the face of the violation of customary practices. Such perception of injustice could lead to a reaction and resistance.
Moral Economy: it addresses the questions of how peasants react to the break of trust or in the face of the violation of customary practices. Such perception of injustice could lead to a reaction and resistance.
E.P. Thompson originally formulated the idea of a moral economy by bringing the notion of perception of injustice derived from material deprivations.
James Scott wrote the book of Moral Economy of the Peasant, but went beyond scarcities from food markets, for including elements such as the entitlement and access to land, livelihood resources, and reciprocity and redistribution from the powerful in the times of need.
#JPSWriteshop .@Peasant_Journal
Shapan Adnan: According to Lenin, division of labour means that some households start to specialize, this is the factor that brings change among the peasantry.
Those who have more land will need to have more workers.
Shapan Adnan: According to Lenin, division of labour means that some households start to specialize, this is the factor that brings change among the peasantry.
Those who have more land will need to have more workers.
There are problems with Lenin and Kautsky's theories. Some of them are regarding the linear process of capitalist development of agriculture, a key critique was raised by Robert Brenner in his 1976 paper "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe"
In analyzing land grabs, we need to be careful about using categories such as primitive accumulation, circulation of capital, centralization of capital.
Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism: our JPS Writeshop 2020 in is underway....
Last year we were in Beijing. This year we are on Zoom!
PhD & postdocs from across the Global South. That's 73 fascinating & committed people at #JPSwriteshop! @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc
Last year we were in Beijing. This year we are on Zoom!
PhD & postdocs from across the Global South. That's 73 fascinating & committed people at #JPSwriteshop! @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc
Another world is possible..... We are creating it online, building a virtual community of scholar-activists working in critical agrarian studies.
Here are some of over 70 participants in this year's #JPSwriteshop with @Peasant_Journal. This week, we are doing theory!
@PLAASuwc
Here are some of over 70 participants in this year's #JPSwriteshop with @Peasant_Journal. This week, we are doing theory!
@PLAASuwc
How to build a community of agrarian scholar-activists in the Global South? Led by people precisely like them, just further on the journey.... Here's the fabulous team making this happen....... from Africa, Asia, Latin America & Middle East @Peasant_Journal #JPSwriteshop
