Improving young researchers’ strategic knowledge about and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact.
The 5th Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism is for PhD students and young researchers who are based in, or are originally from, the Global South.
Why a Writeshop?
The Writeshop aims to improve young researchers’ strategic knowledge about and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact. This includes choosing journals; building ideas about and framing/writing journal manuscripts; overall preparation and submission of journal manuscripts; dealing with peer review reports, and so on.
It will include sessions by leading academics on key debates and literature in critical agrarian studies, and concepts in and practices of scholar-activism.
The 5-day Writeshop will include peer review discussions on participants’ draft journal manuscripts, conducted in small groups with mentors and facilitators. Hosted by the College of Humanities and Development at China Agricultural University in Beijing, the writeshop will take place between the COHD campus and the COHD peasant learning centre in Yi County.
What will you learn?
After the Writeshop, participants will be in a better position to frame their work in relation to critical agrarian studies, to think about international journal publications in the long-term and finalize journal manuscripts in the short term.
They will also benefit from being part of an emerging community of young researchers working in critical agrarian studies from a scholar-activist tradition. Several participants will be invited to submit manuscripts to the Journal of Peasant Studies and encouraged to submit to other major international journals.
Who can apply?
Applicants must have finished their PhD fieldwork and be less than five years past PhD completion.
We are looking at a maximum of 30-40 workshop participants. No fee is required.
We will provide partial or full fellowships (travel and accommodation financial support) for some of the participants, depending on the availability of funds.
We also encourage externally funded participants. Successful applicants must circulate a draft manuscript (based on their accepted abstract) of 8,000-10,000 words in advance of the Writeshop.
Application details
Application deadline: 15 January 2024
For applications, please submit the following:
(1) An abstract of 500 words, related to critical agrarian studies (see JPS aims and scope)
(2) A short bio of 250 words
(3) Names and contact information of 2 academic references
Full details and timeline
Got any questions?
- Email address
- jpeasantstudieswriteshop@gmail.com
- More information
The 5th Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism is organized by:
- The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS),
- College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing),
- the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS),
- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape and
- the Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at the International Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands
