CASAS
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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…
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Oral History, Collective Memories, and Class Identity in Agrarian Struggles in Baixada Fluminense
CASAS’ member, Gabriel Souza Bastos, has published this article in Portuguese in Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura Abstract: This article analyzes the persistence of a peasant class identity in a rural area of the Baixada Fluminense, manifested through oral history and reproduced by the local population over decades, based on conceptions of spontaneous philosophies and…
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The ‘Colombian Cerrado’ under construction: influences of the Brazilian agribusiness model on Altillanura production expansion
Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish with Juanita Cuéllar Benavides in Revista Campo-Território. Abstract: During the first decades of the 21st century, there has been a growing interest in land investments for agricultural production, extractivist activities or speculative purposes, leading to global land grabbing processes. In Colombia, since…
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Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants
Sandeepan Tripathy, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Contemporary South Asia. Abstract: Many economic and historical accounts mention the forms of capitalism in Surat. The paper argues that while capitalism has always been central to examining Surat, existing literature mainly focuses on the owners of capital and the relationships among them. The notions of…