CASAS
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Everyday human rights practices in the Colombian Caribbean
New publication alert! In a new article in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, Camilo Eduardo Espinosa Díaz (CASAS member) discusses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. Abstract: This article addresses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the…
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Who is who in CASAS? Atakan Büke
Atakan Büke is a research affiliate at the Research Centre GlobalDynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University, where he has recentlycompleted a three-year post-doc. He holds a PhD in sociology fromMiddle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Informed by socialtheory, sociological theories of capitalist modernity and development,critical agrifood studies, and more recently science and technologystudies, he works especially…
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Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites’ role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya
Jackson Wachira, a member of CASAS, Paul Stacey, and George Oura have recently published their latest article in The Journal of Modern African Studies. Abstract: Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of local actors, in this…
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Market–community collaborative wildlife management in Malawi: subjectivities and shifting configurations of protests and celebrations
New publication alert! Sane Zuka, a CASAS member, and Brenda Zuka have just published an article in GeoJournal. Abstract: Although wildlife management models across the world have since the early 1980s shifted from top-down fortress conservation to different labels of people-friendly community-based conservation, their outcomes remain contested. This paper explores how, and in whose interests,…