agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Kunal Munjal has published this article with Madhura Swaminathan in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: In Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of sugarcane in India, the crop is grown on family farms and marketed under an outgrower model with state regulation. Higher productivity and production from a new ‘wonder’ variety, an expansion…
CASAS’ member Kapil Yadav has published this paper in Political Geography. Abstract: Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a…
CASAS’ members Amrita Sharma, Yukari Sekine, Peerzada Raouf Ahmad , Sardar Babur Hussain, Hassan Turi , Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, José Sobreiro Filho, Carol Hernández, Sergio Coronado & Yasmine Ahmed have collectively published this paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies’ Special Issue on Food sovereignty and systems change. Abstract: Historically, war-making and state-making…
CASAS’ member C. R. Yadu has published this paper in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Claudia Goldin in 2023 has renewed attention on issues of women’s work. In this context, this article critically revisits the debate on the declining participation of women in the rural labor…
CASAS’ member Isabel Güiza-Gómez has published this article with Laura García-Montoya & Ana Montoya in Perspectives on Politics. Abstract: In response to growing policy challenges, such as postconflict transitions and climate change, exceeding the scope of existing institutions, governments often enact extraordinary reforms—that is, nonincremental institutional innovations regulating state action through fast-tracking procedures, expanded mandates,…