Bosman Batubara is an Indonesian postdoctoral researcher at Human Geography and Spatial Planning Department, University of Utrecht. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Floods in (post-) New Order Jakarta: A political ecology of urbanization” at Human Geography, Planning, and International Development Department, University of Amsterdam and Water Governance Department at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education…
Month: March 2024
The Food System in the (Post-)Pandemic World: Disruptions, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Alternatives
New publication alert! Atakan Büke, a CASAS member, and colleagues have just published an article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Abstract: COVID-19 sharply exposed the vulnerabilities of capitalist-industrial agri-food relations and significantly intensified them. At the same time, we have also seen that agri-food relations can be resilient, that some…
COVID-19 and the Neoliberal Resilience of Food Provision in Istanbul: Non-Regulation and Agility in the Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Markets
Atakan Büke, a member of CASAS, M. Fatih Tatarİ, and Orkun Doğan have recently published their latest article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Abstract: This research examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Istanbul fresh fruit and vegetable provisioning between March and September 2020. In line with global…
Everyday human rights practices in the Colombian Caribbean
New publication alert! In a new article in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, Camilo Eduardo Espinosa Díaz (CASAS member) discusses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. Abstract: This article addresses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the…
Who is who in CASAS? Atakan Büke
Atakan Büke is a research affiliate at the Research Centre GlobalDynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University, where he has recentlycompleted a three-year post-doc. He holds a PhD in sociology fromMiddle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Informed by socialtheory, sociological theories of capitalist modernity and development,critical agrifood studies, and more recently science and technologystudies, he works especially…