CASAS
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Seeing agricultural life from spaces of struggle, death and resurgence
CASAS’ members Huiying Ng & Dimas D. Laksmana have published this article with Christina Maria Cecilia M. Sayson in “Grassroots. Journal of Political Ecology”. Abstract: This visual essay offers a closer look at the relations shaping nature’s transformation into a commodity. By tracing reproductive relations of struggle, death, and resurgence, we underscore how commodity production…
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On financing social security in the shadow of the digital age
Ruth Castel-Branco (CASAS’ member) has published an article with Sarah Cook, Arabo K Ewinyu, and Thokozile Madonko in Global Social Policy. Abstract: Over the last decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of social protection as an instrument of inclusive growth. Much of the scholarship on the expansion of social protection has…
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Resilience from Below: Rethinking Development in Northern Kenya’s Pastoral Drylands
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan & Jackson Wachira have published this article with Tahira Mohamed, Ian Scoones & Hussein Wario in The Journal of Development Studies Abstract: Based on in-depth field research in northern Kenya over three years, this article makes the case for a new approach to building resilience in the pastoral drylands. Past approaches…
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Science, movement and practice? Analytical keys to identifying the “social dimension” of agroecology
CASAS’ member Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach has published this article in Portuguese in Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura. Abstract: Although it has been agreed that agroecology can be understood as a movement, science and/or practice, this classification is insufficient in sociological terms. We sought to identify the political and ideological content of what is claimed…