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…
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’…
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…
Suravee Nayak (CASAS member) has just published a new book chapter titled ‘Uneven and Combined Development and the Politics of Labour in an Eastern Indian Coalfield: Shifts and Changes from Late Colonialism to Neoliberalism’. Check out the full chapter here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111311418-008/html
In a significant milestone, we convened our first in-person General Assembly last October at the esteemed College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. The assembly was held as a pre-activity to the Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century – International Conference, a collaborative effort by COHD, The…