CASAS
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Book review: Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia, by John Soluri
CASAS’ member, Mercedes Ejarque, has just published a book review in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The book reviewed proposes a reconstruction of the history of the southernmost extremity of the continent (currently Argentinean and Chilean territories) by examining the impact of the commodification of animals (native and exotic) on the relations between society and…
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Factors Underlying Kidnapping in Southern Taraba State, Nigeria
Yikwab Yikwabs, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Zenodo with Usman Umoru, Arokoyo Jacob Eniola & Moses Danjum Musa. Abstract: Nigeria has been thrown into a quagmire by a vicious cycle manifested in different forms of criminalities. The appalling carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram in the north and the wanton mayhem unleashed by militants…
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Book review: Recasting Workers’ Power Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age by Edward Webster and Lynford Dor
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has recently published a book review in the journal Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. Abstract: The book reviewed, Recasting Workers’ Power by Eddie Webster with Lynford Dor, offers a hopeful respite from the millenarian narratives of the end of labour that have come to dominate contemporary debates on work in…
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Waste commons in motion
Daren Shi-Chi Leung, CASAS’ member, has just published this article in Cultural Studies journal. Abstract: In thinking biowaste at the heart of commoning, this article juxtaposes the alarming escalation of the global waste crisis with the quiet history of repurposing food waste as pigswills in Hong Kong. It develops the notion of waste commons, in…