Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti is a PhD student in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Their focus study is resistance studies, social movement, and community development. In Indonesia, she serves as a lecturer in the Department of Social Development and Welfare at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
New Waves of Sugarcane Commercialisation: Unequal Forms of Exchange in a North Indian Village
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…
The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
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…
Violent conflict, capitalism and insurgent food sovereignty
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…
Does “Feminization U Hypothesis” Hold? A Discussion on Women’s Work Participation in Rural India
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…





