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Saturnino ‘Jun’ M. Borras Jr. es un activista político y académico que ha estado muy activo en los movimientos sociales rurales de Filipinas y el resto del mundo desde principios de los años ochenta. Jun formó parte del principal equipo organizador que estableció el movimiento campesino internacional La Vía Campesina y ha escrito numerosas publicaciones sobre cuestiones territoriales y movimientos agrararios. Jun también es profesor adjunto de la Facultad de Humanidades y Desarrollo (COHD) de la Universidad Agrícola China de Beijing, investigador para Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy en California y coordinador del proyecto Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS).

Últimos trabajos

  • Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles

    • Land Sovereignty
    • Land and Water Grabbing
    • Climate Crisis
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    This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best features of radical academic and political activist traditions, despite the many contradictions and challenges that this entails. The role played by scholar-activists in land struggles is important, but is not straightforward. This book unapologetically celebrates the contributions of scholar-activism in land struggles and scholarship, but more than this, it is about exploring the contradictions and challenges facing scholar-activism. It is neither a glorification of the achievements of scholar-activism, nor a set of prescriptive propositions on how to ‘do’ scholar-activism. Rather, it addresses contentious issues in scholar-activism, many of which are rarely discussed, or are discussed only gingerly and awkwardly when they cannot be avoided. It is a book written by two scholar-activists who have focused their individual and collaborative research and activist works on the politics of land and the role played by radical agrarian movements. Insights in this book are drawn on the experiences of the authors working in the three main sites of global knowledge circuits: academic institutions, independent research institutions oriented to practical politics, and left-wing agrarian movements. Order Print Copy

    Book de
    • Jun Borras
    • Jennifer Franco

  • La Via Campesina –transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field A laudatio

    Food Sovereignty

    La Via Campesina(LVC) has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important role of agrarian movements in anti-capitalist struggles and the radical reimagination and construction of a positive future. The significance of LVC is found not in the shrinking numerical size of farming populations or in agriculture’s dwindling macroeconomic contributions to national economies, in relative terms, but in the political heft of what it represents in terms of an alternative future that is so different from the current agrarian world.

    Article de
    Jun Borras

  • Susan George and contemporary anticapitalist struggles within and against the global food system

    Food Sovereignty

    This year, 2021, the global community of food sovereignty activists is celebrating what is deemed as the 25th year anniversary of food sovereignty – as it protests against a corporate-captured UN Food System Summit (UNFSS) this September 2021. The global food system remains front and center in international political debates, as working people struggle to survive during this ongoing pandemic while a few corporate food giants continue to make huge profits. The struggle to dismantle the unjust, unsustainable industrial food system while constructing alternatives around food sovereignty is at the core of contemporary anti-capitalist struggles.

    Article de
    Jun Borras
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