CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour…
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Thabang Sefalafala this article in South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of…
Kapil Yadav, CASAS’ member, has published an article in International Journal of the Commons. Abstract: Changing fire regimes amidst the planetary ecological crisis demand a rethinking of human-fire relationships. This rethinking has led to growing calls for moving away from anti-fire strategies and recognising the necessity of living with fire. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya,…
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan, Mercedes Ejarque, Aayushi Malhotra, Carlos Bolomey Córdova, Leon Brenya Yeboah & Jackson Wachira have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental…
CASAS’ member Dimas D Laksmana has published this chapter in the book “Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond”. Abstract: Why is reflexivity needed to transform coloniality in participatory research? In this chapter I critically reflect on my shifting positionalities as an Indonesian field researcher and a doctoral researcher in Germany to argue that…