CASAS
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Gramsci’s relevance in the study of entrepreneurs and rural landowners’ representative organizations during Brazilian redemocratization (1986-1991)
Afonso Henrique de M. Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Agrarios. Abstract: The present work aims to discuss and present how Antonio Gramsci’s concept of extended State contributed as a theoretical and methodological tool for studying organizations of businessmen and rural landowners between 1986 and…
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‘I Was Here Before You’: Politics of Belonging in A1 Villagised Farms of Zimbabwe
CASAS’ member, Malvern Marewo, has published an article with Senzeni Ncube in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Abstract: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of 2000 redistributed land previously owned by White farmers to the majority Black Zimbabweans. In understanding the dynamics of land ownership, various studies have been conducted, and these…
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Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions
Mnqobi Ngubane, CASAS’ member, has published an article in the Review of African Political Economy. Abstract: This article explores social relations of production and reproduction on redistributed farmland by examining capital–wage relations and social reproduction impacts of land redistribution induced small- and medium-scale capitalist farming on fragmented classes of gendered labour. Such diverse, historically determined,…
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The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile
Carlos Bolomey Córdova, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Rural Sociology. Abstract: This article seeks to challenge essentialist comprehensions of rural Indigenous communities through examining one particular Mapuche community who were the recipients of a land subsidy. Mapuche people are the largest Indigenous group in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Chilean government, responding to…