CASAS
Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
CASAS is a community of scholar-activists from the Global South working in agrarian studies. It is a network emerging from the 2019 Journal of Peasant Studies Writeshop on Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism in Beijing. It has expanded through subsequent editions, and it is self-organised by Writeshop participants.
CASAS promotes scholarship and activism in critical agrarian studies and alternative ways of navigating the structural barriers in academia by following principles of solidarity and mutual care.
Members’ Spotlight
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Who is who in CASAS: Amrita Sharma
Amrita Sharma is an Associate Professor at O P Jindal Global University in Haryana, India. She teaches political studies and works across political economy, political anthropology, political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and political geography. Her research examines the everyday politics of conflicts, resistance, and social movements, with a sustained focus on sovereignty, development, extractivism, nationalism,…
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Who is who in CASAS: Michelle Escobar Cruz
Michelle Escobar Cruz is an economist, holding a Master of Science in Rural Development, and she is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Science. Michelle was raised by her afrodescendant grandmother in a village in Chiapas, México, where her great-grandmother was a traditional doctor supporting well-being and health of many community members. From there, Michelle’s curiosity…
LATEST NEWS
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Rethinking humanitarianism: reflections from northern Kenya
‘What is the future of humanitarian aid and development?’ is central question today. The article written by CASAS’ member Rahma Hassan, Ian Scoones and Hussein Wario examines the limitations of both ‘classical humanitarianism’ and project-based ‘resilience humanitarianism’ approaches and compares these with ‘everyday humanitarianism’ where…
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Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain: a socio-material perspective
CASAS’ member Faustina Obeng and Sietze Vellema have published “Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This paper critically examines the conditions and practices that produce and reproduce relations of lending and borrowing and consequently indebtedness, which are closely…
LATEST POSTS
- Rethinking humanitarianism: reflections from northern Kenya
- Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain: a socio-material perspective
- Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers
- Food, fuel, or forest? Interrogating the resource nexus dilemma behind deforestation through community-lived experiences in southern Malawi
- Book review: Migrant Workers in Turkish Agriculture: Patterns of Mobility and Dispossession (1990–2018) by Deniz Pelek
- When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya