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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

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

Mercedes Ejarque @mer_ejarque (Argentina) says that the impulse to dedicate one's life to agrarian studies derives from wanting to understand people's livelihoods and stories. Scholar-activism is about working with people to change the world. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal

Phangphuong Hao (Vietnam) says it's crucial for young scholars to recognise that publishing our work for non-academic voices is valuable and important. Top global journals are important, but we must democratise knowledge too. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc

Rahma Hassan (Kenya) says most people working on agrarian issues have no background in agrarian studies - so we need to build comradeship, share resources & ideas. Her work on pastoralists connects with big themes in our field #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc @rahmah2017

Debora Lima (Brazil) says one thing she learnt at #JPSwriteshop was to check that your PhD topic or journal article isn't "just another case study". The point is not merely to illustrate existing theoretical arguments; but to develop them further. @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc

Should the #JPSwriteshop continue as an online community? What kind of collaboration? Doing what? Participants are discussing the way forward. @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc

What does it mean to build our community of agrarian scholar-activists in the global south? Here's the CASAS website for the collective - a space for connecting, sharing opportunities, and solidarity casasouth.org

The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists in the South has developed a manifesto casasouth.org/sample-page/

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