New book review! Bosman Batubara, CASAS’ member, has published a book review of “The Pulse of the Earth, Political Geology in Java” by Adam Bobbette in the Journal of Anthropological Research. Read his review here: https://doi.org/10.1086/729737
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.
Wango! Women’s Struggles Amidst Privatised and Extractive Models of Salt Mining in Ghana
New article alert! Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong and Faustina Obeng Adomaa, CASAS’ members, have published a new article in Feminist Africa. Abstract: In this article, we examine the contestations and struggles of women salt miners in Ghana within the context of the increasing privatisation of commons and enclosures. Using a qualitative approach based…
Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making: a systematic literature review
New publication alert! Sinem Kavak, CASAS’ member has published with Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Russell A. Stone a new article in Frontiers in Human Dynamics. Abstract: Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of…
Summer of artificial intelligence
New publication alert! Carol Hernández, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish in Revista de la Universidad de México. The article reflects on the upcoming challenges that societies face with new developments in artificial intelligence, and the ethical implications and concerns associated with them. There is also a “bonus track” conversation with Fernando Clavijo….
Land Reform in Court Proceedings? Local Judges and Land Reform in Colombia
New publication alert! In the last issue of the Journal Estudios Socio-jurídicos, CASAS’ member, Diana Isabel Güiza Gómez has published an article in Spanish with Santiago Hernández Carrasco. Abstract: This paper introduces the Judges and Agrarian Reform (jar) dataset, a municipality-year panel that records the allocation of 11 761 public land lots —up to approximately…