timely and short writing samples, opinion pieces, review and reflections, etc.
Check out this just-published book chapter by the CASAS members George Mudimu and Boaventura Mojane. Abstract: Because of the growing Chinese presence on the continent – from agriculture to construction and mining among others – China has been accused of being Africa’s new imperialist power. But what is the evidence for this claim? In other…
Amod Shah, CASAS` member, has a chapter in the just-released book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Abstract: Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper…
New book just released, and prefaced by CASAS members Mercedes Ejarque, Sinem Kavak, and colleagues. ABSTRACT Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and…
Suravee Nayak is an Associate Fellow with the Sustainable Futures Collaborative Research Foundation (SFCRF) at Delhi, India. Suravee’s research interests are energy and labour, political economy of coal, energy transitions, extractive industries, critical agrarian studies and nature-society relations. At SFC, her work focuses on the political economy of coal dependency, coal transitions, and ‘just transition’…
New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Rama Dieng, CASAS member: This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and…