1- 7 August, China Agricultural University Beijing The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) ofChina Agricultural University (Beijing), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South(CASAS), Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the WesternCape and the Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) at…
Author: CASAS
The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.
Rethinking ‘just transitions’ from coal: the dynamics of land and labour in anti-coal struggles
Amod Shah, CASAS` member, has a chapter in the just-released book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Abstract: Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper…
Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies – Open access book
New book just released, and prefaced by CASAS members Mercedes Ejarque, Sinem Kavak, and colleagues. ABSTRACT Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and…
Who is Who in CASAS? Suravee Nayak
Suravee Nayak is an Associate Fellow with the Sustainable Futures Collaborative Research Foundation (SFCRF) at Delhi, India. Suravee’s research interests are energy and labour, political economy of coal, energy transitions, extractive industries, critical agrarian studies and nature-society relations. At SFC, her work focuses on the political economy of coal dependency, coal transitions, and ‘just transition’…
Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving
New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Rama Dieng, CASAS member: This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and…