CASAS
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Industrie and Al-Industriyya: Translating “Industrialization” in 1860s Egypt
CASAS’ member Amr Khairy has just published this paper in Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. Abstract: In Egypt, the word “industry” emerged in the 1860s transliterated as al-industriyya (from the French industrie). Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī, a prominent educator, translator, and man of letters from the 1830s through the 1860s, coined the term and equated…
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8° International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
From July 1 to 10, the 8th International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism took place in Beijing. The Writeshop is organised by The Journal of Peasant Studies, the College of Humanities and Development Studies of China Agricultural University, the Erasmus Distinguished Professor Program, the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the…
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Shifting cultivation as a driver of deforestation: Misinterpreted data, misguided conclusions, and misplaced blame
CASAS’ member Amit John Kurien has published this paper with Catherine M. Hepp, Xiaoye Tong & Thilde Bech Bruun in One Earth. Abstract: Shifting cultivation is often stigmatized as destructive, blamed for deforestation, and as a contributor to climate change. Many remote sensing studies have attempted to map its extent and estimate its role in…
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Everyday land speculation without production in state-led urbanization: The case of Indonesia’s new capital city
CASAS’ member Bosman Batubara has published this paper with Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos & Michelle Kooy in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. Abstract: Indonesia’s new capital city construction is inducing state-led urbanization in the absence of private investments. Reports show the impacts of this process as a rapid land price increase and…