agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Daren Shi-Chi Leung has published this review of the book Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang in the Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: With intellectual rigor and ethnographic richness, Amy Zhang offers her much -anticipated monograph, Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China. In this…
CASAS’ member Estevan Coca has published this article in Portuguese with Adriano Pereira Santos & Rodrigo Giacopini in GEOgraphia. Abstract: With the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the countryside faces the so-called Agriculture 4.0. A broad set of innovations such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, drones, sensors, and so on have been…
CASAS’ member Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz has published this article with Mariam Wallet Aboubrakrine, Amaranta Gómez Regalado, Vincent Ekka, Prateep Kumar Nayak & Zaira Zambelli Taveira in The Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies. Abstract: Indigenous Peoples, despite being crucial stewards of biodiversity, continue to face deep social injustices and marginalization. They endure ongoing criminalization in the…
Patricia Retamal (CASAS’ member) and Chiara Cazzuffi have published this article in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: Women’s participation in paid work is widely expected to enhance bargaining power within households and promote redistribution of unpaid domestic and care work. Yet, in agrarian contexts shaped by long-standing neoliberal labour regimes, this expectation often remains…
Kapil Yadav (CASAS’ member) has published with Abigail Croker, Adriana Ford, William Hayes, Yiannis Kountouris, James Millington, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Monika Moreu Vicente, Ol Perkins, Kate Schreckenberg, Cathy Smith, Maximilian Stiefel & Michel Valette this article in Nature Communications. Abstract: The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter marks an important step toward addressing increasingly extreme wildfires. Attending to complex…