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The SMAIAS/ASN Summer School brings together young and veteran researchers and activists from all continents, especially from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides for collective reflection and learning.

Interested researchers and activists are invited to submit paper proposals (abstracts) of up to 200 words, in English, no later than 18 August 2024. Proposals should be submitted via the online form here: bit.ly/3zpl7WS. Women are especially encouraged to participate.

The selection of proposals will be publicized by the end of August via our social media. The results will not be communicated individually. Please consult our social media below.

Authors of selected proposals will be invited to send their full papers by 3 January 2025. Kindly note that authors of selected proposals who do not send their full papers by this date will not be included in the final programme.

The Summer School will be held in hybrid (physical and virtual) format in the week of 3–7 February 2025, at the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Funding for physical participation is limited. Participants who wish to join physically in Harare are encouraged to access own institutional funding.

Call for papers

We are very pleased to invite you to our SMAIAS-ASN Summer School 2024, which will take place in the week of 5-9 February, in Harare and online, in hybrid format. The theme this year is “Rural and Urban Industrialization: Towards a Great Leap Forward”.

We are honoured to have with us this year Professor Jayati Ghosh, who will deliver the 7th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture, on Tuesday, 6 February. The title of the lecture will be “Development in the Time of Climate Imperialism: How Can the Global Majority Cope?”

The Full Programme with details on panels, roundtables, and the Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture is available below. Links to Zoom and Livestream also appear below.

Links & Zoom registration

MONDAY 5th

Roundtable 1: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 1: Zoom  🔗

TUESDAY 6th

Panel 2: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

7^th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture: Zoom/YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

WEDNESDAY 7th

Roundtable 2: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 3: Zoom 🔗

THURSDAY 8th

Roundtable 3: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 4: Zoom

FRIDAY 9th

Roundtable 4:  Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 5: Zoom 🔗

Programme

Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture

Panels

Roundtables

Papers

ADVENTINO BANJWA – The Question of ‘Idle Land’ and the Dynamics of Displacement for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in the Global South: Preliminary Observations from Uganda 🔗

ARCHANA PRASAD – Proletarian Internationalism in the Contemporary Women’s Movement: A Perspective from India 🔗

AVANINDRA NATH THAKUR & PRIYANSHI CHAUDHARY – Structural Change, Social Security Provisions, and Industrial Policy in India: An Enterprise-level Analysis of Employment Status from 2004 to 2023 🔗

AWANISH KUMAR & MANISH KUMAR – Agrarian Economy of Bihar: Structural Constraints versus Technological Optimism? 🔗

BERNARDO SCHIRMER MURATT – Neo-developmental Misery: FIESP in the 2016 Brazilian Coup d’État 🔗

BOSMAN BATUBARA, KEI OTSUKI, SYUKRON SALAM & EKA HANDRIANA – Socialism-capitalism: How China’s Capital Expands into Indonesia’s Nickel Downstream Industry 🔗

CHARITY DANGWA-RUSERE – In Search of a Great Leap Forward: Comparing State- and Private-led Contract Farming by Zimbabwe’s Differentiated Resettled Small-Scale Farmers 🔗

DAMIAN LOBOS – Which State for the ‘Great Leap Forward? Capacities and Forms of Governance for a Transformative Agenda in South America 🔗

DINESH ABROL – Path Formation for Rural Industrialization in India: Lessons for Peoples’ Democracies 🔗

FADZAI MHARIWA – Renewable Energy Consumption and Gender Development in Southern Africa (2002–2020) 🔗

HAITHEM GASMI – Tunisian Peasants Organization of Political Action and Production: Tansiquiet and Cooperatives 🔗

KARLO MIKHAIL I. MONGAYA – The Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms: An Alternative Vision of Philippine Development? 🔗

LUCCAS GISSONI, PAULO ROBERTO DE MACEDO SOARES OLIVEIRA PIRES & LEONARDO GRIZ CARVALHEIRA – Development Paths in a Colonist Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil 🔗

MATHEUS MOREIRA – The Role of Small Tech in the Concentration and Centralization of Capital 🔗

NEWMAN TEKWA – Land Reform and Industrial Development in Mexico: Practical Lessons for Zimbabwe 🔗

PARIS YEROS – A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power’ 🔗

RAKHEE KEWADA – Technology and Underdevelopment in Tanzania’s Cotton and Textile Sector 🔗

SAGAR ROY – The Indian IT Sector in the Era of Neoliberal Reforms with Emphasis on Workers and Working Conditions: A Global Value Chain Perspective 🔗

SAMUEL IGBATAYO – The Challenges of Peripheral Industrialization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa 🔗

SEMHAL ZENAWI – Dirge for the Ethiopian Left 🔗

TAHIRÁ ENDO GONZAGA – Angola’s Trajectory and Development Challenges in the 21st Century  🔗

ZEYAD EL NABOLSY – Paulin Hountondji on Dependency Theory and Technology 🔗

Samir Amin Young Scholars’ Prize in Political Economy of Development

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Volumes 11–12 (2022–2023)

Candidates:

• Asymmetry and Unequal Exchange in the Agricultural Value Systems: Case Study of Paddy – MANISH KUMAR
• Theories of Political Ecology: Monopoly Capital Against People and the Planet – MAX AJL
• The Role of Prevailing Agrarian Relations in Lower Crop Productivity and Profitability: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India – SHINU VARKEY
• The Legacy of Clóvis Moura: A Marxist Critique of Race in Brazil – WEBER LOPES GÓES

More information on the prize and other editions can be found here.

http://www.agrariansouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ASN-RB-Nov_-Dec-2023_Final.pdf

http://www.agrariansouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ASN-RB-Nov-Dec-2023-1.pdf

Sign the petition HERE✍🏼

STOP THE GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE!

The Agrarian South Network adds its voice to the condemnation of the genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist state against the Palestinian people with the backing of the United States and the European Union.

It is unacceptable that a settler colonial state continues to exist and that it is allowed to practice apartheid and carry out the extermination of the people it occupies.

It is unacceptable that the imperialist war machine of the West is once again unleashing its full force against an oppressed people of the South.

The NATO-Zionist alliance is entirely responsible for the violent confrontation in Palestine.

We express our unconditional support to the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and justice.

We call on our governments to break ties with the Zionist state and confront imperialism.

This is the defining moment of the 21st century. Imperialism and colonialism must be defeated once and for all.

LIST OF SIGNATURES (Dec. 18th 2023) HERE:

http://www.agrariansouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ASN_RB_Mar-Jun_2023_Final.pdf

Brazil and the Amazon Summit: Climate, fight against hunger and agroecology

Rural and Urban Industrialization: Towards a Great Leap Forward

The Summer School will entertain the full spectrum of issues raised in the call for papers (see below), with special interest in the following themes:

1. Trajectories of industrialization and dependence in the peripheries.
2. The theory of delinking and collective self-reliance today.
3. The theory of socialist primitive accumulation today.
4. Land and agrarian reform in industrial transition.
5. Collectivism and cooperativism in agricultural and industrial enterprises.
6. Central planning for rural-urban linkages in industrial transition.
7. Labour, gender and race in industrial transition.
8. Rural and urban social reproduction, health and education in industrial transition.
9. Infrastructural development and the prospects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
10. Industry 4.0 and challenges for peripheral industrialization.
11. Light, heavy, and defense industries in peripheral industrialization.
12. Roles for small industries, artisans, and ‘indigenous’ knowledge.
13. Fiscal, monetary and trade policy for rural and urban industrialization.
14. Finance and debt in industrial transition.
15. Regional and continental integration in industrial development.
16. Minerals and natural resources in industrial development.
17. Fossil fuels and renewable energy in industrial transition.
18. Climate change and the ecological challenges of industrial transition.

The SMAIAS/ASN Summer School values diversity and promotes dialogue between academia and political activists and cadre. It brings together young and veteran researchers and activists from all continents, especially from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides for collective reflection and learning.

Interested researchers and activists are invited to submit paper proposals (abstracts) of up to 300 words, in English, no later than 1 August 2023. Proposals should be submitted via the online form here: https://forms.gle/MCgtYYboFrgFaJXd9. Women are especially encouraged to participate. The selection of proposals will be made public by the end of August via our social media. The results will not be communicated individually. Please consult our social media below.

Authors of selected proposals will be invited to send their full papers by 1 December 2023. Kindly note that authors of selected proposals who do not send their full papers by this date will not be included in the final programme.

The Summer School will be held in hybrid (physical and virtual) format in the week of 5–9 February 2024, at the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Funding for physical participation is limited. Participants who wish to join physically in Harare are encouraged to access own institutional funding.

Papers presented at the Summer School may eventually be selected for publication in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, subject to normal peer review process.

Call for Papers