Mercedes Ejarque
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Rural women and coping with extreme heat in South Western Zimbabwe: livelihoods, water and energy
Patience Chadambuka (CASAS’ member) has published this article with colleagues Talent Moyo & Sandra Bhatasara in Cogent Social Sciences. Abstract: This article focuses on rural women’s agency and innovation in the context of the global acceleration of climate change-induced extreme heat. Specifically, it considers the intersecting challenges encountered in relation to livelihoods, water, and energy,…
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Pauperization and migration: the continuing violence of Green Revolution in rural Punjab, Pakistan
Fizza Batool, CASAS’ member, has published with Rabia Nadir, Huda Javaid, Munir Ghazanfar, Soha Bashir & Huma Naeem an article in Geographien Südasiens. Abstract: This essay is based on the findings of a research started in 2018 to interrogate the rising number of rural migrant women working as maids in middle class homes in the…
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“The Ink of the Scholars“ – “The Taming of Fate“: reflections on knowledge production in social sciences and parrhêsia
New blog piece! Antoinette Danebaï Lamana, CASAS’ member, has wrote a reflection piece for the Fondation Oumou Dilly Blog. In her article, she brings us back to Michel Foucault in The Hermeneutics of the Subject, when he refers to parrhêsia as a way of saying everything frankly, with openness of speech, openness of mind, openness…
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Evolution of Coffee Policies in Mexico. XIX-XXI Centuries
New publication alert! Claudia Oviedo-Rodriguez, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Revista de Historia, a history journal. Abstract: This paper characterizes the evolution of Mexican coffee policies, addressing howthe state’s interest and its mechanisms for supporting coffee production have changedsignificantly over time. Three major phases of coffee policies were identified. First,during the late…