University of Brasília
December 12, 2018 – December 14, 2018
Over the past two decades, agrarian economies and food systems have been undergoing a profound restructuring in the wake of large-scale agribusiness and farmland investments, marked also by increasing financialisation and resurgent authoritarian populism. These have reinforced old and created new forms and sites of capital accumulation by local and foreign elites, advancing and transforming forms of extractivism (new extractivism and agroextractivism). This restructuring has contributed to the unsettling of global geopolitics, most notably with the emergence of the BRICS countries and the so-called Middle Income Countries (MICs). The BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS) emerged in 2013 to examine these transformations.
Critical theoretical and empirical questions about the origins, character and significance of complex changes underway need to be investigated more systematically, which is the main goal of the 6th BICAS International Conference on ‘Development and agrarian transformations: BRICS, competition and cooperation in the Global South’ to be held from 12 to 14 of November 2018 at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Announcements
BICAS conference papers - Deadline extended to October 15 |
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November is fast approaching and we are very excited for your participations in the 6th International Conference of the BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies “Development and agrarian transformations: BRICS, competition and cooperation in the Global South”, hosted by the University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil, November 12 to 14, 2018. This is a notice that the deadline for full paper submission (8,000-10,000 words, including references) has been extended to October 15, 2018. Please note that you still need to upload your paper on the conference website, even if you already emailed us your paper as an attachment. Creating an account on the conference website and uploading your papers is required for registration purposes. |
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| Posted: 2018-09-30 | |
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Conference Information
ISBN 978-85-64593-74-9
