CASAS’ member, Gabriel Souza Bastos, has published this article in Portuguese in Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura Abstract: This article analyzes the persistence of a peasant class identity in a rural area of the Baixada Fluminense, manifested through oral history and reproduced by the local population over decades, based on conceptions of spontaneous philosophies and…
Month: January 2025
The ‘Colombian Cerrado’ under construction: influences of the Brazilian agribusiness model on Altillanura production expansion
Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish with Juanita Cuéllar Benavides in Revista Campo-Território. Abstract: During the first decades of the 21st century, there has been a growing interest in land investments for agricultural production, extractivist activities or speculative purposes, leading to global land grabbing processes. In Colombia, since…
Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants
Sandeepan Tripathy, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Contemporary South Asia. Abstract: Many economic and historical accounts mention the forms of capitalism in Surat. The paper argues that while capitalism has always been central to examining Surat, existing literature mainly focuses on the owners of capital and the relationships among them. The notions of…
Who is who in CASAS: Qinhong Xu
Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
Bhopal disaster (India)
Nikhil Deb, CASAS’ member, has published this book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences, edited by Duane A. Gill , Liesel A. Ritchie & Nnenia M. Campbell. Abstract: A noxious white cloud from a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, floated over nearby shanty towns…