CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has recently published this article in Discover Global Society with Lameck Kachena, Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda. Abstract: This paper presents insights on conducting urban research amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the adoption of digital ethnography as an innovative and flexible approach. Drawing from an expanding body of literature on fieldwork…
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The forgotten repression: peasants and the dictatorship in a rural area of the Baixada fluminense
Gabriel Souza Bastos, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Ruris. Abstract: In this article, I analyze the memorialistic dynamics of repressive events carried out after the coup of 1964, whose target was peasant populations in a locality known as Pedra Lisa, currently in the municipality of Japeri, where land struggles…
Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique
Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane, CASAS’ members, has written this chapter, which has been included in the book “Climate Justice and Participatory Research: building climate-resilient commons” edited by Patricia E. Perkins. This chapter seeks to highlight a new element in the rush for natural resources in countries like Mozambique: carbon. This new commodity, which is…
“We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivismon human–nature bonds
CASAS’ member, Grettel Navas, has published an article with Ksenija Hanaček, Dalena Tran, Arielle Landau, Teresa Sanz, May Aye Thiri, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Mariana Walter, Aida Lopez, Brototi Roy, Eleonora Fanari & Joan Martinez-Alier in Sustainable Science. Abstract: This article analyzes the global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. To do so, we…
Can digital technology promote market participation among smallholder farmers?
Chukwuma Ume, CASAS’ member, has recently published this article in the journal International Food and Agribusiness Management Review with his colleagues Kelvin Nnaemeka Nwangwu, Chinasa Sylvia Onyenekwe, Patience Ifeyinwa Opata, and Nice Nneoma. Abstract: Digital technology holds significant potential for enhancing business efficiency in agricultural marketing. However, empirical research on the use of digital technology…