CASAS
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Who is who in CASAS? Carlos Bolomey Córdova
Carlos Bolomey Córdova is a rural sociologist based in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University, UK. His interests lie at the intersection of family farming, agrarian change, agri-food systems, and ethnography. He has extensive experience conducting ethnographic and collaborative work within indigenous territories in Southern Chile. During his PhD, he researched farmers’ and…
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Containing Contagion in a Garrison State: Field Notes from Kashmir
Check out this research article by Amrita Sharma & Peerzada Raouf Ahmad in History of the Present. Link: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10253358 Histories of contagion reveal penetrating schisms in societies. Xenophobia, fear, and violence undergird such histories. Entwined with histories of colonialism, fears of contagion engender racism, casteism, objectification, sexism, misogyny, and religious and ethnic persecution. Crisis becomes…
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Green Potential in the Global South: The Phulbari Movement in Neoliberal Bangladesh
Check out this chapter by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) & Avijit Chakrebarty, part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology book series. Abstract This chapter analyses the Phulbari Movement, the largest ever anti-mining resistance in Bangladesh, and which forced the government to jettison a multi-billion dollar open-pit coal mining project in Phulbari, a region known…
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Who is who in CASAS? Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah
Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah is a Ph.D. candidate at the University for Development Studies, Ghana and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Leon holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and an MPhil in History from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Higher School of Economics, Russia, respectively. He possesses over…