Enrique Castañón Ballivián
@ECastanon_B
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Lecturer @UCLAmericas. Estudio el agronegocio desde la economía/ecología política. Reviews editor @AgrarianChange. Chukuta enraizando en Londres.
London, UK
Joined September 2012
Happy to share our new article in JPS @Peasant_Journal We define a future research agenda investigating the capital segments and grabbing mechanisms involved in grabbing back redistributed and restituted lands. @UCLAmericas @toveratm @Casas_South
Hot off the press: "Capital grabs back" examines how capital is grabbing redistributed and restituted land globally, and the implications this has for future land and agrarian struggles. https://t.co/Vuj3SzqUzr
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Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.
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📢The @AgrarianChange Seminar Series resumes with a hybrid event co-organised with @UCLAmericas, where Soledad Castro-Vargas presents her pioneering work on agrarian waterscapes 💧🌾. More details and registration: 🔗 https://t.co/4UBZilw91U
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Join @ECastanon_B @AngusMcnelly @UruguayFran and I in UCL, London to discuss the Bolivian elections 🇧🇴🌞 sign up here !
ucl.ac.uk
Roundtable panel: Olivia Arigho-Stiles; Angus McNelly, and Enrique Castañón Ballivián. Chaired by Francesca Lessa.
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After nearly 20 years, Bolivia’s Govt moves firmly to the right. MAS fades, a new era begins. Join our roundtable to unpack this major political restructuring. 🗓️Oct 29 | 🕛 12–1:30pm |📍In-person 🔗 https://t.co/ULahlrkJ4o 🎙️ Olivia Arigho-Stiles, Angus McNelly, @ECastanon_B
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❗️ALERT❗️I just got report of @gbsumudflotilla surrounded by 20 vessels as they reached 70 nautical miles off Gaza coast.
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Trump ordenó a todo museo y sitio histórico de EEUU que retire de la vista del público esta foto de un esclavo de 1863. La esclavitud no debe recordarse. La derecha siempre quiere "dar vuelta la página" y olvidar el pasado, vieron? El porqué es obvio.
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📢 New article “Grabbing Back: Capital Segments and Mechanisms in the Reversal of Land Redistribution” by @ECastanon_B
https://t.co/ZzvaZOnEXc
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Publishes international research on rural politics and developments, and the social structure of peasants, rural labourers and migrant workers.
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Excited that my first academic paper has been published in Critical Sociology. It contributes to some of the current discussions in Marxist state theory and attempts to revive the workerist tradition as its own clear and distinct version of state theory
journals.sagepub.com
This article argues that Autonomist Marxism offers crucial theoretical insights for understanding how working-class struggle shapes the state form under capital...
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Hot off the press: "Capital grabs back" examines how capital is grabbing redistributed and restituted land globally, and the implications this has for future land and agrarian struggles. https://t.co/Vuj3SzqUzr
tandfonline.com
Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insuffi...
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Hot off the press: "Capital grabs back" examines how capital is grabbing redistributed and restituted land globally, and the implications this has for future land and agrarian struggles. https://t.co/Vuj3SzqUzr
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Ha-Joon Chang on contemporary economics teaching: How economics teaching became the Aeroflot of ideas https://t.co/joO7pGJART via @ft
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The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today
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Un estudio del MIT revela que usar asistentes de IA para escribir reduce la conectividad cerebral y el rendimiento cognitivo en comparación con usar solo el cerebro o Google. ⚠️El uso de IA generaría "deuda cognitiva": un alto costo a largo plazo por usar "atajos mentales" hoy.
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While #Madleen must be released immediately, every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity, and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together—united, they will be unstoppable. #BreakingTheSiege is a legal duty for states, and a moral imperative for all of us.
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English below 🔴 L’équipage de la Freedom Flotilla a été arrêté par l’armée israélienne en eaux internationales autour de deux heures du matin. Des actions sont à venir, restez connectés. 🔴 The crew of the Freedom Flotilla was arrested by the Israeli army in international
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Thanks you Meghna and @thewire_in for acknowledging work of Ambedkar Society. @SOAS @soassu @BhosaleAbhi90 @PoMoGandhi @JensLerche @jaffrelotc
https://t.co/OmLr4kJ6vS
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With more Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi students going to the UK for higher education in recent years, they are creating a counterculture on campus, challenging how ‘India’ and ‘South Asia’ are unders...
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There is no returning from this. This is the end of the line. Any ideology that ends up in this has failed some basic test and needs to be dismantled
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✨FILM SCREENING exploring representations and realities of extractivism in Latin American fiction and documentary cinema, focusing on how films portray workers’ and communities’ daily lives and struggles. 📽️➡️ https://t.co/JV5XhkS7OJ
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