New publication alert! Raouf Ahmad Peerzada and Amrita Sharma, CASAS’ members, have recently published an article in the Journal Human Geography with their colleagues Achintya Anita Gurumurthy, and Amulya Anita Gurumurthy. Abstract: Analyzing the trope of “light but tight” education frequently used in India’s New Education Policy 2020, this paper examines the mutually reinforcing ideological…
Natalia Landivar, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyzes the barriers that peasant associations faced to access seized land in Hacienda Las Mercedes through the Plan Tierras. I argue that the mobilization for land transited between an undemocratic state that has historically served the agrarian…
CASAS’ member Yikwab P. Yikwabs has published a new article with Nucha Suntai Gambo, Elyon E.S Maigoge, Alabura Mohammed Abdullahi in JALINGO, Journal of Social and Management Sciences. Abstract: From 2013-2018, the farmer-herder conflict in Benue State escalated to an unprecedented level with attendant destruction of lives and property. The gravity of the crimes committed…
New publication alert! Raya Das, CASAS’ member, has published with Ashok Gulati & Alex Winter-Nelson in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Report. Abstract: The report provides a focused analysis aimed at identifying effective policy interventions to reduce these losses, both at the farmer level and throughout the agricultural value chain….
Deniz Pelek is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at İzmir Democracy University in Türkiye. She received her PhD degree from the Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University and the Geopolitical Institute at Paris-8 University (2019) within the framework of the double doctoral degree programme (cotutelle). Her research interests are critical agrarian studies, migration…