CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south
Claudia Camacho (CASAS’ member) has co-authored this article with David Barkin, Erika Carcaño & Alejandra Sánchez in Ecological Economics. Abstract: Radical Ecological Economics is a more appropriate way for collaboration with communities in the Global South. It transcends the conceptual and methodological premises of Ecological Economics, integrating realities that are not commonly considered, but exist…
The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
CASAS’ member Soledad Castro-Vargas has published an article with Marion Werner in Antipode. Abstract: For decades, agro-industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop-induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address…
Painful hopes? The health and well-being impacts of land expropriation in Chinese villages
Guolin Gu (CASAS’ member) has published with Wen Fan an article in Land Use Policy. Abstract: Debates over state-led land expropriation in rural China often center on whether it constitutes victimization or empowerment. This paper reconciles these competing narratives by examining the health and well-being impacts of land expropriation on two groups: (1) individuals who…
Responsiveness of urban land administration systems in managing wetlands in the rapidly urbanizing Bujumbura city, Burundi
CASAS’ member Prosper Turimubumwe has published an article with Achamyeleh Gashu Adam & Berhanu Kefale Alemie in Cogent Social Sciences. Abstract: Wetlands are increasingly recognised as lungs for urban areas. It is observed that wetlands in urban areas around the world are encroached on and or their uses changed illegally. This happens when there are…





