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Food, fuel, or forest? Interrogating the resource nexus dilemma behind deforestation through community-lived experiences in southern Malawi
CASAS’ member Yamikani Harry Makwinja has published this article with Patrick John O’Farrell, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Edeltraud Guenther in the journal Land Use Policy. Abstract: Local communities are widely blamed for the increasing deforestation in Malawi, primarily due to agricultural expansion and the increased use of biomass energy. Yet, there is limited evidence to…
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Book review: Migrant Workers in Turkish Agriculture: Patterns of Mobility and Dispossession (1990–2018) by Deniz Pelek
Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (CASAS’ member) has reviewed this book authored by Deniz Pelek (also a CASAS’ member) in The Journal of Agrarian Change. Zeynep wrote in her review: “Rural Turkey has long been grappling with multiple crises. Neoliberal restructuring, forced displacement, conflict and war have resulted in the mass migration and dispossession of groups…
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When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Kapil Yadav (CASAS’ member) has published this article in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Abstract: This study examines forest fires in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand by shifting attention from ignitions to the historical production of flammable landscapes. It situates contemporary fire regimes within longer histories of landscape transformation and everyday…
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Between compliance and contestation: Entanglements of co-option and resistance in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
CASAS’ member Usman Ashraf has published this article in The Extractive Industries and Society journal. Abstract: This research demonstrates that co-option and resistance in extractive sectors are not mutually exclusive, but rather, they are co-produced and coexist as messy entanglements. The type of resistance analyzed here did not seek a mine closure but was instead…