Julio Gutiérrez is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is originally from El Salvador. His research interest focuses on the political ecology of financialization, particularly the relationship between speculative urbanism and resource grabbing in Central America. His dissertation project explores the process of gentrification in Cordillera…
Category: Blogs
timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
Rahma Hassan, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published a new article in Nomadic People. Their article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. Drawing on fieldwork among pastoralists living in Samburu County in…
Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco
New publication alert! Fayrouz Yousfi, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, called “Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco”. In this paper, she examines how women agricultural workers mobilize for their right to fair, and fairly compensated, work. Check this article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-abstract/19/1/112/343820/Al-UchaA-Women-Farmworkers-Strategy-for-Gendering
Who is Who in CASAS? Estevan Coca
Estevan Coca is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Federal University of Alfenas, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate Geography, and a Research Associate of the Territorial Development in America Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL) Graduate Program at São Paulo State University. Estevan’s research is focused on Critical Agrarian…
A–Z of cost-effective adaptation strategies to the impact of climate change among crop farmers in West Africa
Check out this new article by NwaJesus Anthony Onyekuru, Robert Marchant, Julia M Touza, Chukwuma Ume (CASAS member), Chinedu Chiemela, Chukwemeka Onyia, Eric C Eboh, Christopher C Eze Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Changes in precipitation and temperature patterns will result in long-term declines in production and short-term crop failures. These short- and…