Check out this new article by Mariana Reinach, from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and CASAS member. The article denounces that the indigenous Xokleng people of Brazil suffered death threats, discrimination, physical and verbal aggression from the population and municipal authorities of Rio do Oeste (Santa Catarina) when they opposed the…
Check out this research article by Amrita Sharma & Peerzada Raouf Ahmad in History of the Present. Link: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10253358 Histories of contagion reveal penetrating schisms in societies. Xenophobia, fear, and violence undergird such histories. Entwined with histories of colonialism, fears of contagion engender racism, casteism, objectification, sexism, misogyny, and religious and ethnic persecution. Crisis becomes…
Check out this chapter by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) & Avijit Chakrebarty, part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology book series. Abstract This chapter analyses the Phulbari Movement, the largest ever anti-mining resistance in Bangladesh, and which forced the government to jettison a multi-billion dollar open-pit coal mining project in Phulbari, a region known…
Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah is a Ph.D. candidate at the University for Development Studies, Ghana and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Leon holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and an MPhil in History from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Higher School of Economics, Russia, respectively. He possesses over…
Andrew Bennie is a Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive background in civil society research, organising and activism, related to land, agrarian struggles, climate justice, and food justice. He previously worked as a researcher, organiser and popular educator with township and…