Established in 1985 under the name “Agriculture and Agrarian Question” and reformulated with the current name in 2001, this area focuses on the study of social processes in progress in the rural world, their representations, and the agrarian roots in social thought. It also addresses the study of the agrarian question and the problem of rural populations and traditional rural peoples, their diversity, and their transformations. The Line of Research is interested in its forms of sociability, institutions, mobilizations, identities, uses, and ways of appropriating land and other natural resources. It should be noted that this area maintains a rich dialogue and partnership with university research centers and nuclei, in particular the Center for Rural Studies (CERES), the Center for Environmental Studies and Research (NEPAM), and the Center for Studies and Research in Indigenous Ethnology (CEPEI).
The courses and ongoing research are organized around the following topics:
· Identity and territorial processes
· Modes of production and appropriation of the territory
· Social production of demands and rights
· State and public policies
· Rural social movements
· Agrarian question and social sciences
· Migration and displacement in the rural world
· Environmental issues and the rural world
Associated Center or Nucleus:
Center for Rural Studies – CERES