Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements

ISBN-13: 9781032083988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Tsegaye Moreda; Saturnino M. Borras Jr; Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

Opis

Converging Social Justice Issues and Movements argues that multiple contemporary converging crises have significantly altered the context for and object of political contestations around agrarian, climate, environmental and food justice issues.

Spis treści

1. Converging social justice issues and movements: implications for political actions and research Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Tsegaye Moreda, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas and Zoe W. Brent  2. The politics of convergence in Bolivia: social movements and the state Ben M. McKay  3. Implicating ‘fisheries justice’ movements in food and climate politics Elyse N. Mills  4. Convergence as political strategy: social justice movements, natural resources and climate change Salena Tramel  5. The challenge of locating land-based climate change mitigation and adaptation politics within a social justice perspective: towards an idea of agrarian climate justice Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco  6. The right to food in the context of large-scale land investment in Ethiopia Tsegaye Moreda  7. Analysing agricultural investment from the realities of small-scale food providers: grounding the debates Christina M. Schiavoni, Salena Tramel, Hannah Twomey and Benedict S. Mongula  8. The ‘tenure guidelines’ as a tool for democratising land and resource control in Latin America Zoe W. Brent, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Gonzalo Colque and Sergio Sauer  9. Why wait for the state? Using the CFS Tenure Guidelines to recalibrate political-legal struggles for democratic land control Jennifer Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez  10. Pathway to resilience: hands and hearts for peasant livelihoods and fair relations between humans and nature Paula Gioia  11. The origins and politics, campaigns and demands by the international fisher peoples’ movement: an Indigenous perspective Sherry Pictou  12. Black lives and climate justice: courage and power in defending communities and Mother Earth Sara Mersha

O autorze

Tsegaye Moreda is assistant professor of critical agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, and a founding member of the Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is professor of agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, an adjunct professor of the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) at China Agriculture University in Beijing, and a fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI). His latest book is Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements (2016, with Marc Edelman).

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas is a lecturer in international development studies at the Human Geography & Spatial Planning Department of the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is also an associate researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, a fellow of the Guatemalan Institute of Agrarian and Rural Studies (IDEAR), and Reviews Section co-editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Zoe W. Brent is a PhD candidate carrying out a joint doctorate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands and the University of Cordoba in Spain. She is also part of the Agrarian and Environmental Justice team at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam.