timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
Chuwuma Ume, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published an article in Heliyon Journal. Abstract: Agroecology is a sustainable farming method that has the potential to revolutionize the global agricultural sector by promoting cleaner and more environmentally friendly practices. However, the question of how to effectively transition to a sustainable agroecology system remains a topic…
Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in portuguese in “Debates en Sociología”, a peruvian journal. Abstract: We analyzed the impacts of the regime change in post-2016 Brazil on patterns of activism, based on the case of the oldest confederation of rural workers in the country. Since the end of the…
Juan Camilo Portela, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in Spanish in “Debates en Sociología”. Abstract: This article addresses the processes of interpretation in the public sphere about the 2013 National Agrarian Strike in Colombia, and especially the way in which the protesters were considered authentic and legitimate. Based on a cultural sociology approach,…
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…
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,…