CASAS
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Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ecological thinking
CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
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Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south
Claudia Camacho (CASAS’ member) has co-authored this article with David Barkin, Erika Carcaño & Alejandra Sánchez in Ecological Economics. Abstract: Radical Ecological Economics is a more appropriate way for collaboration with communities in the Global South. It transcends the conceptual and methodological premises of Ecological Economics, integrating realities that are not commonly considered, but exist…
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
CASAS’ member Soledad Castro-Vargas has published an article with Marion Werner in Antipode. Abstract: For decades, agro-industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop-induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address…
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Painful hopes? The health and well-being impacts of land expropriation in Chinese villages
Guolin Gu (CASAS’ member) has published with Wen Fan an article in Land Use Policy. Abstract: Debates over state-led land expropriation in rural China often center on whether it constitutes victimization or empowerment. This paper reconciles these competing narratives by examining the health and well-being impacts of land expropriation on two groups: (1) individuals who…